Bringing Home the Christmas Tree, 1928

This is a fine original lithograph by American artist Rockwell Kent.  The title is: Bringing Home the Christmas Tree,  created and printed in an edition of 100 in 1928.  Hand signed in pencil the image mesures 12X8 3/8 inches.  Very fine condition, Printed on a Rives B.F.K. wove type sheet.  This image appears in the Burne-Jones catalog as image number 29.  It was in the mid-twenties that Kent began illustrating classic literature. By the end of 1928 he had settled permanently in the Adirondack Mountains in his personally named farm, Asgaard. On his farm Kent wrote and illustrated his third novel, North by East in 1930.  This is one of his best modernist lithographic studies that he created during that time.