“Earl Cavis Kerkam was an American painter. According to Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Mark Rothko, George Spaventa and Esteban Vicente, he “was one of the finest painters to come out of America.” Framed under museum glass in its original frame this original Earl Kerkam ink on paper is signed in pencil on the lower left aspect —“Kerkam.” It is an exquisite representation of Kerkam’s simple and elegant representation of the female form.