District Of Columbia, Kentucky. 1933 - 2022
Abstract color field and drape painting, collage, graphics
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1909 Waterbury, Connecticut - 2001. Known for: Printmaking, mod genre, various non objective.
The following obituary of the artist is from http://washingtonpost.com (March 19, 2001):. A Moving Life in Art. The art books of the future will have to be fairly thick before they get to Jacob... Read full biography
The following obituary of the artist is from http://washingtonpost.com (March 19, 2001):. A Moving Life in Art. The art books of the future will have to be fairly thick before they get to Jacob Kainen, who may not have been this city's greatest painter. Still, Washington feels different, cast... Read full biography
The following obituary of the artist is from http://washingtonpost.com (March 19, 2001):. A Moving Life in Art. The art books of the future will have to be fairly thick before they get to Jacob Kainen, who may not have been this city's greatest painter. Still, Washington feels different, cast adrift, now that he is gone. Kainen, in the studio, was subtle, serious, diligent and idiosyncratic, but art history is ruthless, and this may not be enough. Perhaps he knew too much. The largeness of his... Read full biography
The following obituary of the artist is from http://washingtonpost.com (March 19, 2001):. A Moving Life in Art. The art books of the future will have to be fairly thick before they get to Jacob Kainen, who may not have been this city's greatest painter. Still, Washington feels different, cast adrift, now that he is gone. Kainen, in the studio, was subtle, serious, diligent and idiosyncratic, but art history is ruthless, and this may not be enough. Perhaps he knew too much. The largeness of his mind may well have worked against him. His many ways of thinking made his pictures feel ambiguous, insufficiently clear-cut. His art was often muted by reconsiderations. His aesthetic innovations came a beat or two too late. Flash was not his thing.... Read full biography
The following obituary of the artist is from http://washingtonpost.com (March 19, 2001):. A Moving Life in Art. The art books of the future will have to be fairly thick before they get to Jacob Kainen, who may not have been this city's greatest painter. Still, Washington feels different, cast adrift, now that he is gone. Kainen, in the studio, was subtle, serious, diligent and idiosyncratic, but art history is ruthless, and this may not be enough. Perhaps he knew too much. The largeness of his mind may well have worked against him. His many ways of thinking made his pictures feel ambiguous, insufficiently clear-cut. His art was often muted by reconsiderations. His aesthetic innovations came a beat or two too late. Flash was not his thing. His wife, Ruth, said he died of a heart attack in a matter of seconds yesterday morning as he was getting dressed to g... Read full biography
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Sculpture, painting
New York, Missouri. 1899 - 1985
Modernist sea-views and non-objective painting, graphics
New York / France. Born 1932
Modernist figure, landscape and marine scene painting
New York, Maryland. 1933 - 1993
Super real object, flowers and genre painting
New York / Russian Federation. 1909 - 2008
Mod figure-genre, portrait, streetscape paintings
New York / Russian Federation. 1878 - 1965
Modernist figure-genre, town-landscape painting, drawing
New York, California, New Jersey. 1864 - 1941
Cavorting nudes and landscape painting
New York. 1907 - 1961
Cubist figure, still life, genre and birds paintings, design, sculpture
New York / Italy, France. 1877 - 1946
Modernist figure, landscape and still life painting
New York. 1899 - 1987
Social realist figure and genre painting, lithography, teaching
New York, Massachusetts / Austria, Poland. 1904 - 1991
Wood carving-moving figures, religious imagery, acrobats, children
New York, Connecticut. 1885 - 1965
Abstract sea-landscape and nude figure painting
New York, California / Italy. 1862 - 1928
Painting-landscape-ethereal female figures
Massachusetts, New York / Germany. 1867 - 1938
Modernist architecture painting, landscape, colorist
New York, California / France, Russian Federation, Italy. 1899 - 1972
Surreal genre and landscape painting, set design
New York / Russian Federation, Ukraine, China. 1882 - 1967
Modernist landscape, still life and figure painting
Pennsylvania, California / Germany. 1832 - 1932
Landscape, marine, genre and nocturne painting
Pennsylvania. 1886 - 1973
Landscape, shore-harbor-marine painting
New York, Massachusetts / England, Australia. 1876 - 1958
Post-impressionist marine, landscape painting
Pennsylvania. 1884 - 1956
Landscape-rural, snow, and townscape painting
New York, Pennsylvania. 1928 - 1987
Pop-modernist multi-images, silk screen
New York. 1895 - 1981
Figure, portrait, genre, landscape painting, teaching
New York, California / Canada. 1889 - 1984
Non objective-geometric, modernist-leaning landscape painting
Italy. 1915 - 1996
Glass design, illustration, caricature
Puerto Rico, Haiti, Spain. 1913 - 1986
Painting, silkscreen, lithographs, sculpture
New York, California / United Kingdom, France. 1920 - 2003
Landscape, still life and figure painting
Spain, France. 1881 - 1973
Cubist painting and printmaking