Rockwell Kent New York (1882-1971) STARRY NIGHT, circa 1933 wood engraving, framed signed: lower right, Rockwell Kent image size: H7" W5" *Artist biography: Rockwell Kent was born in to a wealthy New York industrialist family in 1882. Early in his life, Kent was introduced through travel and surroundings to both fine art and architecture. After studying architecture for three years at Columbia University, Kent changed his focus to art and began attending William Merritt Chase's Summer Art Classes in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island, as well as the New York School of Art, where he studied with Robert Henri, and befriended George Bellows. Though he drifted in to relative obscurity until the 1960's, Kent was one of the best-known of the contemporary painters of the 1930's.