Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent. Art Department: Night Descends on Treasure Island. Noted painter and author Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown Heights, New York, on June 31, 1883. He was an architecture student at Columbia University in New York City but dropped out in his third year to pursue an art career. For ten years he held a variety of jobs--lobsterman and carpenter, among others--to support himself while trying to establish himself...