Pinnacle 1928

Here's Rockwell Kent's "Pinnacle," made with lithographic crayon and tusche. Imagine the artist's hand moving across the stone, building up the figure and the rock with layers of tone. It’s about the weight of looking, the weight of being. I'm wondering what Kent was thinking about as he worked on this print, really feeling the pressure of the crayon against the stone, pulling out that figure from the ground, that moment of quiet contemplation. I think of other artists who have been drawn to the figure in landscape, like Caspar David Friedrich, where the figure is often a stand-in for the self, gazing out at the vastness of the world. Kent's work invites us to slow down, to contemplate, and to find our own place in the world, in the conversation.