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Jacob KainenWW-1937-161172
1937·Lithograph·Image: 10 3/4 in. × 14 in. (27.3 × 35.6 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/2 in. × 16 in. (31.8 × 40.6 cm)
Gift of New York City W. P. A., 1943
Catalogue
- Year
- 1937
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 10 3/4 in. × 14 in. (27.3 × 35.6 cm) Sheet: 12 1/2 in. × 16 in. (31.8 × 40.6 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Jacob Kainen
Artist
Jacob Kainen
Printmaking
Jacob Kainen was an American painter and printmaker whose abstract work emerged from a rigorous engagement with color theory and gestural mark-making. Active from the 1930s through the 1990s, he developed a distinctive approach to non-representational painting that emphasized the structural possibilities of the canvas surface. His practice bridged early modernism and postwar abstraction, moving between printmaking and large-scale painting with equal technical command. Kainen's work is held in major American collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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- Jacob Kainen
- Year
- 1937
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 10 3/4 in. × 14 in. (27.3 × 35.6 cm) Sheet: 12 1/2 in. × 16 in. (31.8 × 40.6 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1937-161172
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- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
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