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Stranger in the Gates, 1953

Not on View

Medium

five-color woodcut on Asian paper

Dimensions

image: 42.6 x 53.7 cm (16 3/4 x 21 1/8 in.)

sheet: 51.9 x 60.9 cm (20 7/16 x 24 in.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

1999.82.41

Artists / Makers

Jacob Kainen (artist) American, 1909 - 2001

Image Use

below image in graphite; lower left: Stranger in the Gates; lower center: Ed. 6; lower right: Jacob Kainen 1953

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

Kainen, Jacob

1976: Flint, Janet. Jacob Kainen: Prints, A Retrospective. Washington, DC: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1976, no. 86.

Stranger in the Gates, 1953