ROCKWELL KENT (1882-1971)
Monte Bove (2,279 m - 7,477 ft)
Chile (Tierra del Fuego)
The mountain
Monte Bove (2,279 m - 7,477 ft) is a mountain in southern Chile, not to be confused with the the same named mountains in Italy or in Argentina. Monte Bove is belonging to the province of Tierra del Fuego , which is included in the southern sector of the Magallanes Region and the Chilean Antarctic, in the southwestern sector of the Big Island of Tierra del Fuego, in the peninsula between the admiralty of the Strait of Magellan and the Beagle Channel.It is part of the Fuegian Andes, southern section of the Andes mountain range , specifically in the western sector, called the Darwin mountain range , which borders the Beagle Channel in the north.
The granite hill is located at the eastern end of the Darwin mountain range , in a mountainous knot where other important peaks stand out : the French mountains, Italy, Roncagli, etc. A glacier that bears the same name comes down from its Northeast slope.
On clear days, the summit of Mount Bove, always covered by eternal snow, is visible from the city of Ushuaia. It is one of the highest peaks of the Fuegian archipelago? The summit of this mountain is located on the border between the Alberto de Agostini National Park and the Yendegaia National Park , thus being in all its slopes in protected areas.
Etymologically, this place name is an eponym that honors the Italian navy lieutenant Giacomo Bove, who in 1882, sailing on the ship «Cape Horn», led the scientific expedition to southern Patagonia. In 1963, a team managed to conquer its summit for the first time; It was directed by British mountaineer Eric Earle Shipton and seconded by John Earle, Claudio Cortés and Peter Bruchhausen.
About the artist
Rockwell Kent spent much of his life in New York City, studying painting under influential artists including William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri before venturing in 1903 to New Hampshire to apprentice with Abbott Handerson Thayer. Kent’s personal stylistic formation was influenced by modernism, grounded in realism, and wedded to his mystical beliefs about the power of nature and man’s insignificance in face of it. In 1905 Kent moved to Monhegan Island in Maine, the first of a series of trips to remote locations that included Newfoundland, Alaska, Greenland, and Tierra del Fuego. Kent attended Socialist meetings in Pittsfield, MA in 1909, and his politics became increasingly controversial after WWII. By the 1930s he was associated with the Communist Party. During the Cold War, he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee and was denied a passport in 1957. He eventually gave eighty works of art to the Soviet Union.
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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau
Monte Bove (2,279 m - 7,477 ft) is a mountain in southern Chile, not to be confused with the the same named mountains in Italy or in Argentina. Monte Bove is belonging to the province of Tierra del Fuego , which is included in the southern sector of the Magallanes Region and the Chilean Antarctic, in the southwestern sector of the Big Island of Tierra del Fuego, in the peninsula between the admiralty of the Strait of Magellan and the Beagle Channel.It is part of the Fuegian Andes, southern section of the Andes mountain range , specifically in the western sector, called the Darwin mountain range , which borders the Beagle Channel in the north.
The granite hill is located at the eastern end of the Darwin mountain range , in a mountainous knot where other important peaks stand out : the French mountains, Italy, Roncagli, etc. A glacier that bears the same name comes down from its Northeast slope.
On clear days, the summit of Mount Bove, always covered by eternal snow, is visible from the city of Ushuaia. It is one of the highest peaks of the Fuegian archipelago? The summit of this mountain is located on the border between the Alberto de Agostini National Park and the Yendegaia National Park , thus being in all its slopes in protected areas.
Etymologically, this place name is an eponym that honors the Italian navy lieutenant Giacomo Bove, who in 1882, sailing on the ship «Cape Horn», led the scientific expedition to southern Patagonia. In 1963, a team managed to conquer its summit for the first time; It was directed by British mountaineer Eric Earle Shipton and seconded by John Earle, Claudio Cortés and Peter Bruchhausen.
About the artist
Rockwell Kent spent much of his life in New York City, studying painting under influential artists including William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri before venturing in 1903 to New Hampshire to apprentice with Abbott Handerson Thayer. Kent’s personal stylistic formation was influenced by modernism, grounded in realism, and wedded to his mystical beliefs about the power of nature and man’s insignificance in face of it. In 1905 Kent moved to Monhegan Island in Maine, the first of a series of trips to remote locations that included Newfoundland, Alaska, Greenland, and Tierra del Fuego. Kent attended Socialist meetings in Pittsfield, MA in 1909, and his politics became increasingly controversial after WWII. By the 1930s he was associated with the Communist Party. During the Cold War, he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee and was denied a passport in 1957. He eventually gave eighty works of art to the Soviet Union.
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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau