Hail and Farewell

Hail and Farewell — Rockwell Kent. 1930.

Medium: wood engraving. Dimensions: Platemark: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.).

Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Rockwell Kent’s experiences as a sailor during a 1929 voyage to Greenland inspired this image. It is part of a set of wood engravings commissioned by the American Car and Foundry Company for a campaign promoting its motor yacht division. Rather than depicting realistic representations of life on a boat, Kent’s images evoke a heroic masculine ideal of freedom and adventure at sea. Using an electrotype of the woodblock—a chemical method for creating exact metal copies of three-dimensional objects—Kent also included the designs as full-page illustrations for his travel memoir N by E (1930).

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.