Archive, Marxists Internet. “New Masses.” Marxist.org, 1998. https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/new-masses/index.htm. 

Archive, Marxists Internet. “CONTENTS NEW MASSES 1937.” Marxists Internet Archive. Accessed November 28, 2023. https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/new-masses/1937/v23n07-%5B08%5D-may-11-1937-NM.pdf.

Foley, Barbara. Radical representations politics and form in U.S. proletarian fiction, 1929-1941. Duke University Press, 2012.

“New Masses Archive: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive, November 1927. Accessed November 27, 2023. https://archive.org/details/v01n05-sep-1926-New-Masses/v03n07-nov-1927-New-Masses/mode/2up

“New Masses,” Marxist Internet Archive, August 23, 1938. Accessed November 27, 2023. v28n09-aug-23-1938-NM.pdf (marxists.org)

Langa, Helen, “‘At least half the pages will consist of pictures’: ‘New Masses’ and Politicized Visual Art,” American Periodicals 21, no. 1. Accessed November 27, 2023. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23025205?sid=primo&seq=23

This essay by Helen Langa details the history of New Masses through a political lens, analyzing the different agendas of New Masses. Langa notes that the earlier issues of New Masses were leftist, but less explicit than its later issues. In the 1930s, the magazine aligned itself more with Soviet Communism, which not only changed the written content but also its artistic expression. Langa uses various issues and covers throughout the decade to support her argument about the change in content and ownership, however, it does not cover much of the earlier or later issues of the magazine. This essay is a good resource for those seeking to learn about New Masses and its artists in the context of its political affiliations during the height of its allegiance to Communism and Marxism.  

Philadelphia Museum of Art. “Workers of the World, Unite!” Accessed November 28, 2023. https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/66716.

Kent, Rockwell. Its Me O Lord. Da Capo Press, Incorporated, 21 July 1977.

This is a complete autobiography written by Rockwell Kent himself. Beginning with the perspectives of both his mother and his father, he details how the lives of his parents affected the person he eventually became. From there, he starts in the very beginning following his life in the earlier years until his controversies with the US government of his involvement in the Communist party. Kent details different people he interacted with and different organizations he was a part of. He also describes his past thought processes while experiencing these things. This autobiography helped me to better understand what Kent was like, and it also helped me to imagine the world of an artist. 

“Artist Info.” Www.nga.gov, www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.4494.html.

Kent, Rockwell, and Paul Cummings. “An Interview with Rockwell Kent Conducted by Paul Cummings at Ausable Forks, New York, February 26-27, 1969.” Archives of American Art Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 1972, pp. 10–18. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1557120. Accessed 17 Nov. 2023.

Photo of house in Monhegan Kent built in 1907. Rockwell Kent - James Fitzgerald House & Studio. Accessed December 2, 2023. https://artistshomes.org/site/rockwell-kent-james-fitzgerald-home-and-studio#prettyPhoto. 

Rockwell Kent, Whitehead, Monhegan, ca. 1950. Oil on panel, 12 x 16 in. ROCKWELL KENT - JAMES FITZGERALD HOUSE & STUDIO. Accessed December 2, 2023. https://artistshomes.org/site/rockwell-kent-james-fitzgerald-home-and-studio. 

Printmaking/Skeuomorphs Citations:

Print Nostalgia: Skeuomorphism and Rockwell Kent’s Woodblock Style; Jamie L. Jones; American Art 2017 31:3, 2-25

Jamie Jones' article explores the concept of "Print Nostalgia" with a focus on the revolutionary artistic styles of Rockwell Kent -particularly his woodblock style. She briefly delves into the sentimental and historical aspects associated with printmaking, while also introducing the concept of Skeuomorphs and how it was manifested in Kent's woodblock and other printing techniques.

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