The series consists primarily of handmade greeting cards and limited edition prints given to Jacob and Ruth Kainen. The cards contain lithographs, etchings, pen and ink drawings, and woodblock prints by various artists such as Tadeusz Lapinski, Un-ichi Hiratsuka, and Raphael Soyer. Alberta Mayo's portfolio, entitled "Remembering Paradise: Postcards from Southern California," is also part of the series. The series contains a variety of materials given to Kainen by the artist, Irving Amen. The series is arranged alphabetically by the artist's last name and chronologically under each heading. Artists with fewer than five items are filed alphabetically in miscellaneous folders. The material by Irving Amen is organized further by the type of material (i.e. by works of art, photographs, and printed material) and then chronologically.
See Appendix for a list of miscellaneous artists from Series 10.
Appendix: Miscellaneous Artists from Series 10:
Arneson, Robert, undated
Aronson, Irene, 1962
Azechi, Umetaro, undated
Baskin, Leonard, undated
Beeri, Tuvia, 1978-1990
Brashow, James, undated
Browne, Rosalind Bengelsdorf, 1937
Bunts, Frank, undated
Butler, James, undated
Carcan, René, 1978-1990
Celan-Lestrange, Gisèle, 1977
Davis, Gene, 1969
Dayez, George, undated
Dean, Hilliard, 1980-1987, undated
De Léon, Ponce, 1965-1971, undated
Dos Santos, Bartolomeu, undated
Eichenberg, Fritz, 1977
Everson, William and Mary, 1948
Frasconi, Antonio, undated
Greenwald, Bernard, 1976
Griffith, Fuller, undated
Gubbiotti, Jason, 2000
Gumpert, Gunther, 1999
Gurr, Lena, 1971-1972, undated
Hashimoto, Okiie, undated
Highton, Anne, 1985-1991, undated
Isen, Hal and Anita, undated
Kent, Norman, 1966, undated
Kolin, Sasha, undated
Kreindler, Doris, 1967
Kurosaki, Akira, 1979
Landau, Jacob, 1971
Laughlin, Rebecca Mirsch, 1979
Leizman, William, 1961, undated
Lewis, Golda, 1955
Lothar, Ernest, 1951
Lyon, Rowland, undated
Margo, Boris, undated
Michel, Sally, 1970-1977
Moore, Benson, undated
Morse, Peter, 1973-1975
Music, Zoran, 1978
Nama, George A., 1965-1966
Neustadt, Barbara, 1971
Pearlstein, Philip, 1977-1978
Piza, 1983-1988
Purcell, Ann, 1997
Reed, Paul, 1969, undated
Refregier, Anton, 1971
Riabov, George, undated
Schwartz, Carl, undated
Smallwood, Michael, 1973
Stone, J., 1985
Solmon, Joseph, 1944-1952
Soyer, Raphael, undated
Sundberg, Alan, undated
Taylor, Prentiss, 1962-1963
Veinus, Abraham, 1989-1990
Viswanadhan, Velu, 1981
Ward, Lynd, undated
Weber, Joanne Goulart, 1977-1997
Wiley, William T., undated
White, Pat, 1972
Yoshida, undated
Yunkers, Adja, 1948
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Jacob Kainen papers, 1905-2008, bulk 1940-2001. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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