Etching and aquatint, 1946-48 (printed in 1954). 372x195 mm; 14 5/8x7 5/8 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 23/30 in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression of this scarce print.
Reuben Kadish worked as a printer at Atelier 17 in New York producing prints, at twenty-five cents per impression, for André Masson, Joan Miró and other European Surrealists. Surrealism and Miró's influence is especially prevalent in the current print.
In 1960, Reuben Kadish began his long association with the Cooper Union in Manhattan as a professor of art and art history. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he moonlighted as part-owner of the White Horse Taven, an establishment frequented by many artists and writers. In 1962, his oldest son married Philip Guston's daughter. Kadish was lifelong friends with Guston, with whom he attended the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, and Jackson Pollock, whom he met in high school in Los Angeles.
