Joseph Alexander Cain

Joseph Alexander Cain (27 May 1920 – 8 September 1980) was an American artist, educator, and art critic. He led a combat art team during the Korean War, received degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, and was recognized for his art at the local, state, national, and international levels, being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London. Cain served the art community as educator, originator of the National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas, and art critic. Personal and professional documents are included in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.