Adaline Kent

Overview

Adaline Kent (b. 1900) lived and worked in the Bay Area until her passing in 1957. Over the course of her lifetime, she became known as a pioneer of the mid-century modernist aesthetic, creating abstract sculptures inspired by her time spent in the mountains of the High Sierras, and by the way bodies, including her own, moved through space. Interested in exploring the experience of time in her practice, Kent’s work captures elegant, elemental movements through biomorphic shapes and forms. Evoking a diverse array of imagery ranging from infinity symbols to mountains, streams, and ski slopes, the artist’s dedication to creating visual movement and balance through static form transcends time, remaining as deeply resonant today as it was during her lifetime.

Documents

Works

Adaline Kent
Untitled (Winter Landscape), c. 1944
Ink, charcoal, and colored pencil on paper
11 x 14 in
27.9 x 35.6 cm
Framed: 14 3/4 x 17 3/4 in
37.46 x 45.08 cm
Adaline Kent
Last Piece, 1957
Terracotta
30 x 15 x 14 in
76.2 x 38.1 x 35.6 cm
Adaline Kent
Argosy, 1956
Terracotta
12 1/4 x 11 1/2 x 3 in
31.1 x 29.2 x 7.6 cm
Adaline Kent
Lighthouse for Birds, 1956
Terracotta (two pieces)
31 1/4 x 8 x 7 1/2 in
79.4 x 20.3 x 19.1 cm
Adaline Kent
Rendezvous, 1954
Terracotta
15 x 19 3/4 x 5 in
38.1 x 50.2 x 12.7 cm
Adaline Kent
To an Ancient God, 1954
Terracotta (two pieces)
22 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in
57.1 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm
Adaline Kent
Figment, 1953
Bronze
65 x 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 in
165.1 x 24.1 x 24.1 cm
Adaline Kent
III, 1953
Ink and gouache on paper
52 1/2 x 21 in
133.3 x 53.3 cm
Framed: 61 1/4 x 30 in
155.57 x 76.2 cm
Adaline Kent
Moon Dial, 1953
Magnesite with inclusions
22 x 21 x 15 in
55.9 x 53.3 x 38.1 cm
Adaline Kent
Offering, 1952
Hydrocal with shells
1 7/8 x 14 x 4 in
4.8 x 35.6 x 10.2 cm
Adaline Kent
Meteor, 1949
Hydrocal
7 1/2 x 8 x 9 in
19.1 x 20.3 x 22.9 cm
Adaline Kent
Song, 1945
Tempera on incised Hydrocal
17 1/2 x 21 1/4 in
44.5 x 54 cm
Framed: 19 3/4 x 23 1/2 in
50.2 x 59.7 cm
Adaline Kent
Cascade, from the Mountain Series, 1944
Ink, graphite, and crayon on paper
16 x 14 in
40.6 x 35.6 cm
Framed: 22 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
57.15 x 50.16 cm
Adaline Kent
Untitled (Tumblers), 1940
Ink, pastel, and watercolor on paper
15 x 17 3/4 in
38.1 x 45.1 cm
Framed: 19 x 22 1/2 in
48.26 x 57.15 cm