Artist
Jacob Kainen
American, 1909–2001
Jacob Kainen was an American Abstract Expressionism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Jacob Kainen was born in Waterbury.
Jacob Kainen (December 7, 1909 – March 19, 2001) was an American painter and printmaker. He is also known as an art historian, writing books on John Baptist Jackson (US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1962) and the etchings of Canaletto (Smithsonian Press, Washington, DC, 1967). In addition, Kainen was a collector of German Expressionist art, and he and his second wife, Ruth, donated a collection of this work to the National Gallery of Art in 1985.
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