Complete the sentences with the following words: books, landscapes, architecture, illustrated, strong-willed, graduate, famous, travelled, made,
realistic, exhibition, spent, life, himself, such, nature.
American Painter Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent was born in New York. He studied 1) … at Columbia
University, but did not 2) … it, as he decided to become a painter.His first 3) … ,
held when he was 20 years old, 4) … him famous.
He 5) … much, especially in the Far North , and 6) … many years in Alaska,
Greenland and Canada.He is characterized as an artist by his 7) … manner of
painting and his love for 8) … men. His 9) … show the beauty of 10)… in the Far
North and the hard 11) … of people there. 12) … pictures as “Greenlanders”,
“Northern Greenland”, “Summer in Greenland”are poems of the North.
But Rockwell Kent is 13) … for his black and white illustrations. He 14) … his
books” It’s Me Oh, Lord” and “This is My Own”. In his paintings and 15) …, mostly
autobiographical, he speaks about his time and 16) … , also about the United
States of America.