The American painter and illustrator Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) fitted into the realist tradition that was a revolutionary force early in the 20th century and then gradually developed a stylized approach to subjects taken from the working class. Born in...

STOCKBRIDGE - An avowed socialist whose passport was once revoked by the US government exhibiting in the temple dedicated to the prince of patriotic propaganda? Well, the two do have something in common: the name Rockwell. Rockwell Kent's paintings - including several from...

By CONSTANCE MARTIN, with essays by RICHARD V. WEST. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2000. Exhibition catalogue. ISBN 0-520-22711-5. 128 P., 60 color illus., 20 b&w illus., exhibition list, index, chronology, bib. Hardbound, US$45.00; Softbound, US$24.95. Constance Martin's Distant Shores: The...

Alex Katz in Maine. This second show also includes a selection of oil studies and drawings in ink and watercolor. Together, the two exhibitions constitute a major event—not only for Maine but for the history of American art. It can now no longer be doubted...

For the American painter Alex Katz (born 1927), this has been a remarkable summer. In June, the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Me., organized a comprehensive exhibition of the artist's diminutive collages (over 70 in number), most of them dating from the 1950's;...