Edwin Kaufman

Cleveland-born printmaker and painter Edwin Kaufman was an active member of the Cleveland School during the 1930s. His formal art education began at the Cleveland School of Art, where he learned watercolor and portraiture from Henry Keller. Upon graduation in 1929, he studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich and Henry de Waroquier in Paris after winning the Agnes Gund European Traveling Scholarship. In 1930 he exhibited alongside master printmaker Kálmán Kubinyi at the Council Education Alliance in Cleveland and later published a book of etchings with Kubinyi in 1932. During the early years of...