Kingmaker

 

Jacob Kainen

  1909 - 2001 (biography)

1973  

color lithograph 

25 1/4 x 19 1/4"  

pencil, lr 

23 of 50  

dated; titled at lower sheet edge 

Flint 118 

cream wove rag 

published 

 

JK109 

SOLD

Throughout his remarkable life, Kainen experimented with different mediums and explored many styles, yet he identified himself as a painter. His work took root in the Social Realism of the 1930s, later becoming involved in the development of abstract expressionism. Fiercely independent and anti-establishment, he rejected labels and moved from visceral abstractions to figurative work to abstraction again, refining these styles at his own pace. His work became well known for its variations and diversity, color and form and explorations of light and space.