Earl Kerkam
American painter, 1890–1965
Kerkam was committed to a modern, expressionist aesthetic inspired by the work of Paul Cézanne and the Cubists, and he maintained recognizable subject matter (often self-portraits). He was highly respected by the abstract expressionist painters who encouraged the Museum of Modern Art to organize a memorial exhibition. His paintings were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He taught briefly at the New York Studio School before his death in 1965.
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American painter and printmaker, 1885–1962
American painter, etcher, and lithographer, 1898–1942
American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951
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American painter and printmaker, 1907–1981
American painter, collagist, and writer, 1913–1967
