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Untitled
By Jacob Kainen
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Jacob Kainen
Title: Untitled
Year: 1978
Medium: Mixed media
Framed dimensions: 27.5 inches width; 33 inches high; 1" depth
Framed in a beautiful gold gilt frame
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Jacob Kainen Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled (Figure Drawing)
By Jacob Kainen
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower right: "Kainen".
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1960s American Modern Jacob Kainen Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Discussion
By Jacob Kainen
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower left: "Kainen". Inscribed verso: "Park Musicians- Discussion Jacob Kainen '65".
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1960s Modern Jacob Kainen Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Park Group (Discussion)
By Jacob Kainen
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower center: "Kainen". Inscribed verso: "Jacob Kainen/ 1966". Hemphill Fine Arts label verso.
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1960s Modern Jacob Kainen Art
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U Street Capriccio
By Jacob Kainen
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower left: "Kainen". Inscribed verso: "U Street Capriccio/ Jacob Kainen 1967/ 24x30".
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1960s Modern Jacob Kainen Art
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Canvas, Oil
Eyrie
By Jacob Kainen
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower right: "Kainen". Inscribed verso: "J. Kainen/ Eyrie- Dec 1949".
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1940s American Modern Jacob Kainen Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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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.
Jacob Kainen was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, in 1909. As the second of three sons born to Russian immigrants, Kainen grew up in a family that appreciated culture and talent. His father's artistry as an inventor and his mother's love for music and literature undoubtedly fostered in Kainen an insatiable interest in art. Even at age ten, Kainen was eager to study master works, including clippings of art reproductions from The Jewish Daily Forward in his scrapbooks. In 1918 the family moved to New York City, where Kainen's budding passion would further advance with trips to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library. Poetry and literature became major components of his artistic study during high school. When Kainen graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School at sixteen, he was too young to be admitted to the Pratt Institute. In the meantime he took drawing classes at the Art Students League, where Kimon Nicolaides taught him to "trust in the freedom and sureness of his hand." It was during this period that Kainen made his first prints, drypoint etchings. Kainen used this time to further exercise his interests by working in the classics department of Brentano's bookstore, as well as developing his skills as a boxer. Kainen would go on to become an expert in the classics and quite a skilled amateur prizefighter.
Kainen was finally granted admittance to Pratt in the fall of 1927. Though Kainen had a deep interest and appreciation for the old masters during this period of his life, he quickly found the Pratt curriculum backward, too anti-modernist, and dogmatic. Upon entering school his portraits and color choices remain warm in tone, but as he progressed they became brighter and more reminiscent of Cézanne's palette. In Kainen's final year of school, Pratt instituted a curriculum that focused more on commercial art and commercialized drawing styles. This catalyzed Kainen into a rebellion that resulted in his expulsion from the institute three weeks before graduation, and subjected him to further scorn from many of those associated with Pratt. This event proved monumental in Kainen's conceptual and artistic development. After his expulsion, Kainen sought out other avant-garde artists in the city, especially those who shared his institutional disdain. It led him to begin to engage with the emotive palette and gestures of German Expressionism and the social awareness and ferocity of social realism during the 1930s. In 1934 he rents a studio in Greenwich Village, meets Stuart Davis, Willem De Kooning, Adolf Dehn, John Graham, and Arshile Gorky, who paints Kainen’s portrait.He became a part of the New York Group, "interested in those aspects of contemporary life which reflect the deepest feelings of the people; their poverty, their surroundings, their desire for peace, their fight for life." His expressionist and social leanings began to definitively merge in the mid-1930s in works such as Tenement Fire (1934) and The Flood (1936).
Kainen also frequented cafeterias that had become the places where urban artists met to debate and develop ideas, both social and aesthetic. Kainen and Arshile Gorky became acquainted during a particular exchange in which they both defended the importance of copying master works and admitted to lurking in museums. The friendship with Gorky and his influence that resulted from their meeting would prove to be a lifelong one. Kainen was an active participant in the WPA's graphic arts program during the second half of the decade, but he eventually parted with the aesthetics of social realism in favor of abstraction. Yet his work would never lose its humanism or its concern for history: "However abstract the forms and colors seem, they should somehow give off an aura of human experience." In the late 1930's he organizes the New York Group with Jules Halfant and Herbert Kruckman; they invite Alice Neel, Louis Nisonoff, Herman Rose, Max Schnitzler...
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