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Kainen, Jacob: American, 1909 - 2001

Sun in the Hills
1951: woodcut and color stencil on wove paper; sheet: 38.1 × 45.88 cm (15 × 18 1/16 in.); Flint 1976, no. 81, State [unique impression]; Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen in honor of the artist's 90th birthday; 1999.82.43; Not on View

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below image in graphite; lower left: Sun in the Hills; lower right: Jacob Kainen '51

Provenance

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

Exhibition History

2014: Modern American Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014-2015

Bibliography

1976: Flint, Janet. Jacob Kainen: Prints, A Retrospective. Washington, DC: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1976, no. 81.