NEW Temporary Exhibit in the Rockwell Kent Gallery

[Edith Ellis]

The Plattsburgh State Art Museum is pleased to announce a new temporary
exhibit in the Rockwell Kent Gallery:

*ORIGINS: The Development of an Artist and His Craft*
*Curated by Scott Ferris*
*November 8, 2022 - August 11, 2023*

*Reception: Thursday, December 1st, 5-7pm*
*Gallery Talk: Friday, December 2nd, 11am*


Scott Ferris first came to the campus of Plattsburgh State as a sophomore
in the autumn of 1976. Shortly after studying abroad – Italy and Denmark –
the following two semesters, he returned to campus, fulfilling the request
of the new museum director, Edward Brohel, to catalogue and label the
budding Kent Collection. Subsequently, Ferris was hired by Kent’s widow,
Sally, to serve as director of The Rockwell Kent Legacies (1980-1982). Here
he labeled much of the artwork that would make its way to Plattsburgh
following Sally Kent Gorton’s death (2000).


Since Ferris’s tenure at the Kent estate he has consulted on the artist’s
work for auction houses, museums, galleries and private collectors. His
catalogue of Kent’s 1960 gift of artwork to the (former) Soviet Union,
– *Rockwell
Kent’s Forgotten Landscapes* (Ferris and Pearce. 1998) – and his position
as guest curator for the Adirondack Museum exhibition,  (now ADK-X), *The
View from Asgaard: Rockwell Kent’s Adirondack Legacy* (1999-2000) [the
first time artwork from the 1960 gift returned to the United States] – has
earned him international recognition as a leading authority on the artist’s
artwork and life.


Ferris last curated an exhibition for Plattsburgh State Art Museum in
2002 –*Generations:
The Artistic Heritage of Rockwell Kent* (the exhibition later traveled to
the Frye Art Museum in Seattle).



*Origins: The Evolution of an Artist and His Craft.* Selections from the
Rockwell Kent Collection at Plattsburgh State Art Museum


The Rockwell Kent Collection at Plattsburgh State is one of the most
comprehensive selections of the artist’s work in the world – paintings,
drawings, prints, personal photographs, ephemera, books, films, and
letters, all housed at Plattsburgh State Art Museum and the Benjamin F.
Feinberg Library’s Special Collections.


>From this exhaustive collection guest curator Scott Ferris has selected a
variety of work, in a variety of media, to show how Kent and his craft
matured. The audience will view artwork from Kent’s childhood years to his
last endeavors; and witness how an idea developed from sketches to finished
compositions, through procedures that, in today’s computer age, are no
longer in use – color separations and hardcopy proofs. Visitors will
observe paintings, – Kent’s first love – drawings, prints, fabrics,
dinnerware, and books: with examples of what he considered his “potboiler”
work – commercial commissions – that supported his global travels as well
as his dairy farm – Asgaard.



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