Rockwell Kent was an American artist best known for his signature, smooth style of landscape painting ... and the mysticism of writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Kent also ...

He would refer to this man as his "master," Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1911. Courtesy: Library of Congress A Literary Giant Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was renowned in his day ...