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The Midnight Sun, 1960

Not on View

Medium

etching, drypoint, and engraving on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 30.8 x 37.8 cm (12 1/8 x 14 7/8 in.)

sheet: 38.1 x 46.4 cm (15 x 18 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

1999.82.31

Artists / Makers

Jacob Kainen (artist) American, 1909 - 2001

Jacob Kainen (printer) American, 1909 - 2001

Image Use

below plate mark in graphite; lower left: 14/30; lower right: Jacob Kainen '60; along edge of sheet lower left: The Midnight Sun

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. 92.

National Gallery of Art