Earl Kerkam
American · 1891–1965 · Painter
Earl Cavis Kerkam was an American painter. According to Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Mark Rothko, George Spaventa and Esteban Vicente, he “was one of the finest painters… (Wikipedia)
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Record prices
Untitled (Self Portrait)Wright · $5,000≈ £3,048≈ €3,878Sign up to see
Self-portrait #2Wright · $4,973≈ £3,057≈ €4,261Sign up to see
Self-Portrait (Cubist)Bonhams · $3,840≈ £3,044≈ €3,554Sign up to see
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Earl Cavis Kerkam was an American painter. According to Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Mark Rothko, George Spaventa and Esteban Vicente, he “was one of the finest painters to come out of America.” Gerald Norland wrote at the Earl Kerkam Memorial Exhibition in 1966:”A painter of enormous poetic awareness, self-directed, almost totally without direct influence, he stands as an original American artist in the best sense.”
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abstract expressionism
Also known as Cavis Earl Kerkam, Earl Cavis Kerkam, Earl Covis Kerkam, Kerkam
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