Transit
Jacob Kainen, American, 1909 - 2001
1953
Color etching and aquatint on wove paper
16
Plate: 7 15/16 × 10 3/16 in. (20.1 × 25.8 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/16 × 12 15/16 in. (28.4 × 32.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Virginia and Preston T. Kelsey 1958 Fund
PR.997.31.2
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in graphite, lower right: Jacob Kainen '53; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: Transit; bottom left: TRANSIT
Publication History
Janet A. Flint, Jacob Kainen Prints, A Retrospective, Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976, p. 60, under no. 87.
Provenance
Charles M. Young Fine Prints & Drawings, Glastonbury, Connecticut; sold to present collection, 1997.
Catalogue Raisonne
J. Flint, Jacob Kainen Prints, A Retrospective, Washington, D.C., 1976, no. 87.
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