Adaline Kent
| Adaline Kent | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Adaline Dutton Kent August 7, 1900 Kentfield, California |
| Died |
March 24, 1957 (aged 56) Marin County, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Vassar College, San Francisco Art Institute, Grande Chaumiere |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Style | Post-war California Modernism |
| Spouse(s) | Robert Boardman Howard |
Adaline Dutton Kent (1900–1957) or Adaline Kent Howard was an American sculptor from California. She created abstract sculptures with forms inspired by the natural landscape.
Biography
Kent was born on August 7, 1900[1] in Kentfield, California, one of seven children of women's rights activist Elizabeth Thacher Kent and U.S. congressman William Kent.[2][3] Her grandfather, Albert Emmett Kent, had purchased an 800-acre farm in 1871, which later became the town of Kentfield.[3] She began her education at Vassar College before returning to the Bay Area to study at the California School of Fine Arts.[4] She studied in Paris with Antoine Bourdelle at the Grande Chaumiere.[5] She married Robert Boardman Howard on August 5, 1930, after they worked together on the Pacific Stock Exchange building, a Miller and Pflueger architecture firm project.[6] They had two daughters, Ellen (May 1931 – Oct 1987)[7] and Galen (born April 1933).[6][8]
Death and legacy
On March 24, 1957, Kent died in an accident while driving on the Pacific Coast Highway in Marin County.[9]
Adaline Kent was an alumna and a former board member (1947–1957) of the San Francisco Art Institute, and left it $10,000 to establish an annual award for promising artists from California. The prize was awarded from 1957 to 2005. Winners included Ron Nagle (1978), Wally Hedrick (1985), David Ireland (1987),[10] Mildred Howard (1991), Clare Rojas (2004),[11] and the last recipient, Scott Williams (2005).[12]
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- San Francisco Art Center, 1934;
- Courvoisier Gallery, San Francisco, 1941;
- San Francisco Museum of Art (now called San Francisco Museum of Modern Art or SFMoMA), 1937,[13] 1948, 1958;
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1953;
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1955.[5]
References
- ↑ Vicennial Record of the Class of 1887 in Yale College. Connecticut: Marigold-Foster Printing Company. 1909. p. 131. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
- ↑ Sherman, Thomas Townsend (1920). Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England: Some Descendants of the Immigrants, Captain John Sherman, Reverend John Sherman, Edmund Sherman and Samuel Sherman, and the Descendents of Honorable Roger Sherman and Honorable Charles R. Sherman. New York, NY: T. A. Wright. p. 365.
- 1 2 "Greenbrae and Kentfield - Overview". Realty Of Marin. Retrieved November 6, 2014.
- ↑ "Adaline Kent". lagunaartmuseum.org. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
- 1 2 Carlson, David J. "Adaline Dutton Kent (1900 - 1957)". AskArt. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
- 1 2 "California Art Research: John Galen Howard, Robert Boardman Howard, Charles Houghton Howard, Adaline Kent, Jane Berlandina". Internet Archive. San Francisco Public Library. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
- ↑ "HOWARD, KENT". SF Genealogy. October 13, 1987. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
- ↑ McCann-Morley, Grace L. (2012). "Adaline Kent". Rehistoricizing The Time Around Abstract Expressionism. Retrieved November 5, 2014.
- ↑ "Auto Hits, Kills Planner in SF". Daily Review (Newspaper). December 24, 1958. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
- ↑ "David Ireland - gallery as place : Adaline Kent Award exhibition". Stanford University, SearchWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
- ↑ Cobb, Chris (September 20, 2007). "Art Review: Clare Rojas: P.S. Hurray!!". Gallery Paule Anglim. Gallery Paule Anglim. Retrieved November 6, 2014.
- ↑ "Scott Williams at the SF Art Institute". Stencil Archive. Happy Feet Design. June 14, 2005. Retrieved November 6, 2014.
- ↑ Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. New York, New York: Routledge. ISBN 1135638896.