Earl Kerkam
Earl Cavis Kerkam, according to Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Mark Rothko, George Spaventa and Esteban Vicente “was one of the finest painters to come out of America.” Gerald Norland wrote at the Earl Kerkam Memorial Exhibition in 1966:
Earl Kerkam died on January 12, 1965 in New York City.Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 1933 and the 1930s: Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York City; Babcock Gallery, New York City; J.B. Newmann Gallery, NY;
- 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944: Bonestell Gallery, NY;
- 1946, 1948, 1952, 1953, 1955: Charles Egan Gallery, New York City
- 1947-1949: Harld Wacker’s Chinese Gallery;
- 1955, 1956: Poindexter Gallery, New York City;
- 1960, 1961, 1963: World House Gallery, New York City;
- 1964: B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, Illinois;
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 1951, 1953-1957: Ninth Street Show, and Stable Gallery Annuals, New York City;
- 1949, 1955: The Whitney Museum of American Art, Annuals and Biennials, New York City.
Works in Museums and Public Collections
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
- Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
- Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
- Museum of Art and Archaeology at University of Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
