Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Degravitation 1937 Rockwell Kent, American, 1882 - 1971. Printed by George C. Miller, New York. Lithograph Currently not on view 1971-2-573 Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1971 |
LabelIn 1937, Life magazine commissioned Kent to produce this group of lithographs to accompany an article on the Hayden Planetarium, which was opened behind the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1935. His imaginative designs, which he called the End of the World series, illustrate four frightening scientific theories about potential celestial disturbances and their cataclysmic effects on earth. |
