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Jacob Kainen (artist): American, 1909 - 2001

Stranger in the Gates
1953: five-color woodcut on Asian paper; 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.); Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen in honor of the artist's 90th birthday; 1999.82.41; Not on View

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob

Bibliography

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

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