Saturday, June 27, 2009

Kent, redux, so richly deserved!




I'm quoting from this article about William Kent, once more, because I do not want to be one of those people who knew about, and in fact collected his work, and never helped to get the word out.
Wood Be Master
THE SCULPTURES OF WILLIAM KENT, A CARVING ARTIST
By Alan Bisbort
The smell of wood resin and wood dust precedes William Kent's barn in Durham, Connecticut by about 100 yards. As you make the final turn on serpentine Howd Road—after passing cow pastures, woodlands, vine-choked ponds and creeping suburbia—Kent's lime-green door appears, a visual beacon that most people simply speed past.

Why shouldn't they? They have no way of knowing that inside lives and toils one of the world's master artists. Private by nature, the solitary William Kent once preferred it that way. But now, having turned 82, Kent is beginning to wonder why the larger world—meaning the major institutions dedicated to art and culture—have not beaten a path to his door. This is not just some idle pipe dream of a hobbyist or second-rate talent but a valid complaint from a forgotten master. William Kent, according to an art critic cited in a New York Times article about him, is "the world's greatest living carver of wood. There's not even anyone close."
Read the rest, you will Never forgive yourself if you don't! And run to Kehller Liddel Gallery for this show.......
Bob Falcetti is the remarkable photographer who captured Bill and his work so beautifully!

3 comments:

ArchAngelApplianceRepair said...

wow his work is absolutely amazing... wish I could afford a piece for my den!
...wouldn't mind making a trip to see in person... absolutely fabulous
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Beverly Kaye said...

If you are ever in this area, I'll bring you to his studio. When the barn doors open you just stand in awe......

Kate Carvellas said...

breathtaking and amazing!!