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Greenland Mother Nursing Child.

  • ARTIST: Rockwell Kent

  • MEDIUM: Lithograph,

    DATE: 1934.

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 7 x 4 1/2 (17.9 x 11.5 cm).

  • DESCRIPTION: The composition presents an Inuit mother nursing her child, rendered with a clarity and monumentality that elevates the intimate subject to a universal, almost archetypal image of motherhood. The figure is typically shown in a simplified, frontal or slightly turned pose, her form strongly outlined and structurally composed. Kent’s treatment emphasizes both physical presence and symbolic resonance, aligning the subject with enduring themes of nurture, protection, and the continuity of life.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO: Signed in pencil lower right.

  • CONDITION: Very good condition.

  • REFERENCE: #108 in "The Prints Of Rockwell Kent: A Catalogue Raisonne" by Dan Burne Jones.