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Jacob Kainen

Store Front

1948

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Jacob Kainen

Store Front

1948

Physical Qualities Drypoint with scraping with printed tone, Sheet: 242 × 303 mm. (9 1/2 × 11 15/16 in.) Image: 147 × 199 mm. (5 13/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kainen, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Object Number 1998.67
From the artist
Janet Flint, Jacob Kainen: Prints, a Retrospective, Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1976

Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin, (in graphite): Store Front; LR margin: Jacob Kainen '49; BL Corner (in plate): JK (conjoined) VERSO: BR Corner (in graphite): 700-

Markings: none - Hand with cross

Artist and Printer

Jacob Kainen

1908–2000

American, 1909-2001
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