Kainen, Jacob
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Name (Latin)
Kainen, Jacob
Date of birth
1909-12-07
Date of death
2001-03-19
Occupation
Museum curators
Painters
Printmakers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
b. 1909
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Sources of Information
- George Clymer and the Columbian press, 1950.
- Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1909)
- New York times, March 23, 2001(Jacob Kainen; painter and print curator; born December 7, 1909 in Waterbury, Connecticut; lived and worked in New York City in the 1930s; worked at Smithsonian from 1942; died Monday [March 19] at home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, aged 91)
- Wikipedia, October 7, 2014(Jacob Kainen; American painter and printmaker; born December 7, 1909, in Waterbury, Connecticut; died March 19, 2001, in Chevy Chase, Maryland; curator of the Division of Graphic Arts at the Smithsonian's U. S. National Museum from 1942 to 1970)
- His George Clymer and the Columbian press, 1950.
- N.Y. times, Mar. 23, 2001(Jacob Kainen; painter and print curator; b. Dec. 7, 1909 in Waterbury, Conn.; lived and worked in New York City in the 1930s; worked at Smithsonian from 1942; d. Monday [Mar. 19] at home in Chevy Chase, Md., aged 91)
Wikipedia description:
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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