Project Description

Jean Kubota Cassill is a printmaker who worked primarily in the mid- to late twentieth century. printmaking. She studied printmaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she encountered Arthur Frick, a professor of drawing. It is unknown as to how or why he received this artwork, but it may be that Cassill was a student of his. Frick later served as a professor of humanities and painting at Berea College and he donated this artwork to the Berea College Art Collection in 1951.

– Joshua Kells, Class of 2026

Object Details

Jean Kubota Cassill (Japanese-American, b. 1926)
1949
180.A.4
14 1/2" x 10 3/4"
Aquatint
Gift of Arthur Frick