Earl Kerkam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Earl Kerkam

American painter

Date of Birth: 07-Oct-1891

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Date of Death: 12-Jan-1965

Profession: artist, painter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Earl Cavis Kerkam, (1891– 1965) 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: ”A painter of enormous poetic awareness, self-directed, almost totally without direct influence, he stands as an original American artist in the best sense.”Earl Kerkam died on January 12, 1965 in New York City.