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Jacob Kainen

Reaching

1949

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Jacob Kainen

Reaching

1949

Physical Qualities Brush and pen and black ink and pastel on paper, Sheet: 500 x 373 mm. (19 11/16 x 14 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Ruth and Jacob Kainen, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Object Number 1995.198
Jacob Kainen, (exhibition catalogue), essays by W. Agee and A. Berman, Washington: National Museum of American Art, 1993. Jacob Kainen Prints: A Retrospective, Washington: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1976.

Inscribed: Face: LR (in ink), 'Kainen 50'; Verso: LL (in graphite), 'REACHING'.

Artist

Jacob Kainen

1908–2000

American, 1909-2001
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