Jacob Kainen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jacob Kainen

American artist

Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1909

Place of Birth: Waterbury, Connecticut, United States

Date of Death: 19-Mar-2001

Profession: painter, art historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Jacob Kainen (December 7, 1909 – March 19, 2001) was an American painter and printmaker.
He is also known as an art historian, writing books on John Baptist Jackson (US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1962) and the etchings of Canaletto (Smithsonian Press, Washington, DC, 1967).
In addition, Kainen was a collector of German Expressionist art, and he and his second wife, Ruth, donated a collection of this work to the National Gallery of Art in 1985.