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Jon Cornin Art

American, 1905-1992

Jon Cornin studied in New York City at the Art Students League and the Grand Central School of Art. He was also a noted teacher, respected theorist of Modernism and the author of Painter's Credo: Selected Notes (Stone House Press, 1985). Cornin exhibited widely and with success, and was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards.

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Artist: Jon Cornin
'Geometric Interior', New York ASL, California Watercolor Society, Oakland
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Signed lower right "Cornin" for Jon Cornin (American, 1905-1992), dated "LVII" for 1957, and titled verso "Uncial." Jon Cornin first studied with Raphael Soyer at New York's Art Stu...
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