of Cooper's Library. Even during his most prolific period during the mid-1980s when he executed his brutally expressionistic caste of terra cotta and bronze portrait heads, most attention from critics, art historians, and filmmakers were centered not on Kadish's artworks but his raconteur-like recollections of the deified Jackson Pollock or his personal brushes with Siqueiros and other artistic titans like Joan Miró. In fact, Kadish and his late wife Barbara turn up as characters in Pollock, the Hollywood film starring Ed Harris. Legacy Since his death in 1992 at the age of 79, the Reuben Kadish Art Foundation has worked with one goal in mind. It's simple and straightforward: distributing Kadish's sculpture and graphic work to museums and public collections in order to make his name and contribution to the annals of American Art better known to new generations. As Kadish himself said: "It is my wish and direction that my works of art shall be conserved, displayed and distributed to reach the widest practicable public and shall not be sold or otherwise exploited for the private gain of any individual." References External links Reuben Kadish papers online at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art 1913 births 1992 deaths Atelier 17 alumni American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent Jewish American artists Federal Art Project artists Bethlehem Steel people 20th-century American Jews