Art: Kentlings

For what does an adventurous artist reach when his sailing ship is dashed by storm against the knees of Greenland's icy mountains? Artist Rockwell Kent, thus shipwrecked last summer (TIME. July 29), told last week what he had reached for: his wife's picture, his father's silver flute, his own good bowie knife. Upon what does the marooned artist then paint the epic of his wanderings? Artist Kent told that too: upon bedsheets furnished by great hearted Greenland Danes.

*Last week Banker John Pierpont Morgan by the purchase of a Tintoretto for a reputed $100,000 made...

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