James Lewis Dine: A Life Engraved in Line and Form Born in June 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio, James Dine’s artistic journey began not with formal training but with a profound encounter – a copy of Paul J. Sachs' *Modern Prints and Drawings* in his teenage years. This sparked an immediate fascination with the stark power of German Expressionist woodcuts by artists like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Max Beckmann, igniting a desire to capture similar immediacy and emotional resonance through printmaking. His early artistic explorations unfolded within the basement of his maternal grandparents’ home, a…