'Modernist Figural' by Zena Kavin, 1966, California, New Mexico, Oakland Museum, San Francisco Museum of Art, Golden Gate International Exposition

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Signed lower right, 'Z. Kavin' for Zena Kavin (American, 1912-2003) and dated 1966.

Born in Berkeley, California, Zena Kavin studied … Read more Signed lower right, 'Z. Kavin' for Zena Kavin (American, 1912-2003) and dated 1966.

Born in Berkeley, California, Zena Kavin studied at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco and, privately, with Kravchenko in Moscow. She lived in Berkeley and in Oakland her entire life, except for four years spent in New Mexico in the late 1930s. In 1949, she married artist Jon Cornin and settled with him in Oakland. Under the peudonym Corka, the Cornins produced cartoons for the Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker. Kavin worked in various media, including wood engraving, lithography and sculpture. She was a member of the San Francisco Artists Association and exhibited with them as well as at the San Francisco Museum of Art Inaugural (1935), the California–Pacific International Exposition, San Diego (1935), the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939). Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Davis Art Center, the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of California.

Reference:
Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan Books 2002, Vol. 1, page 610; Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, page 1801; Mallett’s Index of Artists, Supplement, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Peter Smith: New York 1948 Edition, R.R. Bowker Company 1940, page 146; Davenport’s Art Reference 2009/10 Edition, LTB Gordonsart, Inc. 2008, page 1444; et al. See less