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An example of work by Joseph Lambert Cain
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Born in New Orleans, Joseph Cain was a painter, muralist, and
lithographer who was a Professor of Art at the University of Rhode
Island in Kingston from 1944 and chair of the department from 1944 to
1958.
He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, the Art
Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York with
Kenneth Hayes Miller. He also took classes with Abstract
Expressionist Hans Hofmann.
He exhibited widely including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design in New York.
Source:
Who Was Who in American Art, Vol I, by Peter Falk. |
Biography from Charleston Renaissance Gallery:
|  JOSEPH LAMBERT CAIN (1904-2003)
Born and raised in New Orleans,
Joseph Cain studied at the Chicago Academy of Art and at the Art
Students League in New York. Through the years he painted a
variety of subjects, but one of his favorites was the street life of
his native city. Representations of New Orleans provide the
subject for many of his earliest paintings, as well as late works like Miss Willie’s Revisited,
which shows the “parlor” of one of the city’s more famous
bordellos. Other memories of New Orleans include two views of St.
Louis #3, one of its historic cemeteries; House with Cornstalk Fence; Queen of the Mardi Gras; and Peep Show.
In
the 1930s, Cain’s work became increasingly abstract. The apparent
flatness of his compositions, together with the sense of movement
achieved by the manipulation of overlapping color planes and
perspective, are characteristics of a style described in 1939 as
“decorative expressionism.”
Cain’s paint is usually thickly applied, and while his dancers,
harlequins and ladies of the evening owe their inspiration to Matisse
and other modernists, as one critic observed, his work “has a fresh
vision that cannot be clearly traced either to contemporary American or
French schools. His world is never dirty, mean or gray, but it is
always bright and luminous” (Stanley Lothrop, Boyer Galleries, New
York, 1939).
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