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Blue Dusk

1980

Jacob Kainen

Associated Names

Jacob Kainen

Artist, American, 1909 - 2001

The image consists of a large blue rectangle taking up most of the canvas, alongside a thin vertical white strip. Red droplets are scattered across the top half of the image, with three white smudges mixed in. A dark rectangular shape is located near the lower part of the image.

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Artwork overview

Medium

color monotype on Rives BFK wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund, 1988)
Dimensions

image: 60.96 × 45.72 cm (24 × 18 in.)
sheet: 76.2 × 56.52 cm (30 × 22 1/4 in.)
Accession Number

2015.19.2939

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hom Gallery, Washington, DC); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower right in black ink: Kainen '80; lower left edge in graphite: Blue Dusk

Watermarks

BFK Rives / France

Wikidata ID

Q77013404

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