Jack Kufeld (American, 1907–1990)

Timeline

1907: Born February 1, in New York, NY
1930: Studied at Cooper Union, circa 1930
1935: Becomes a member of "The Ten," (Whitney Ten Dissenters) a group of artists including Rothko, Bolotowsky, and Adolph Gottlieb among others, who split from Robert Godsoe's Gallery Secession after becoming disatisfied with the gallery. Their mission, according to a catalog from a 1937 Mercury Gallery show) was "to protest against the reputed equivalence of American painting and literal painting."
1930–1939: Gave up painting and succeeded from "The Ten"
Taught, The Design Laboratory, New York, NY
1990: Died, upstate New York

English (US)