1918-1919

Chart of Resurrection Bay, Alaska

American, 1882 - 1971

Kent and his eight-year-old son, Rockwell III, spent seven months on Fox Island in Alaska, from August 1918 to March 1919. He sent this map of the surrounding bay to Carl Zigrosser, Kent’s longtime friend and the founding curator of the Museum’s department of prints and drawings, toward the end of 1918, asking him to reproduce it for distribution as a holiday newsletter to the Kent family and their close friends. The text-filled chart is crammed with interesting details about life on the remote island and the topography of the local coastline. In 1920, the map appeared in Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons), Kent’s first illustrated travel book.