PORTRAIT

Kerkam, Earl (1891-1965)

Oil on Masonite

Unknown

Poindexter Collection

X1966.04.03

By 1935 Kerkam moved to New York, and joined the Easel Project of the WPA. On the Easel Project he met Gorky, Avery, de Kooning, and Pollock, among others. He showed regularly in New York at several galleries including the Charles Egan Gallery. When he was evicted from his studio on 54th St., Franz Kline, a close friend, offered to share part of his studio with him. Elaine de Kooning wrote an article "Kerkam Paints a Picture" for Art News Magazine in 1950. In 1955 and 1956 he had shows at the Poindexter Gallery, where Al Held, Milton resnick, DeNiro, diebenkorn, Nell Blaine and Olitsky also showed.