About the artist:

Jonah Kinigstein is an artist living in Brooklyn. He works in the scorched earth tradition of such 18th- and 19th-century cartoonists as James Gillray, George Cruikshank, and Joseph Keppler, and embraces their somewhat rococo pen and ink technique as well as their penchant to exaggerate the grotesque. In the 1990s, he used to paste his cartoons to the sides of buildings in SoHo in the 1990s, eliciting a variety of responses. He is also an accomplished painter. Painter; Designer. Education: Cooper Union Art School; Grande Chaumiere in Paris; Belle Arte in Rome; Fulbright Fellow. Holdings: Museum of Modern Art; Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Nelson Gallery of Art; Ain Herod Museum in Tel-Aviv. Exhibits: Young Americans at the Whitney Museum of American Art; National Academy of Arts and Letters; ACA Gallery; Rittenhouse Gallery; Washington Irving Gallery; Pindar Gallery. Awards : Fulbright to Italy; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award; Perkin-Elmer Prize. Kinigstein was inducted as Academician into the National Academy of Design in 1997