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Self-Portrait with Drypoint Needle, 1945

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.1 x 20.3 cm (9 7/8 x 8 in.)

sheet: 37.8 x 27 cm (14 7/8 x 10 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

1999.82.39

Artists / Makers

Jacob Kainen (artist) American, 1909 - 2001

Image Use

below plate mark in graphite; lower right: Jacob Kainen; along bottom edge; lower left: Drypoint 1945; along bottom edge on verso: Kainen Fig. 26

Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 1999

Kainen, Jacob

2002: An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003.

2002: An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002-2003, no cat.

1976: Flint, Janet. Jacob Kainen: Prints, A Retrospective. Washington, DC: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1976, no. 46.

Self-Portrait with Drypoint Needle, 1945