Joseph A. Cain

American, (1920–1980)

Joseph Alexander Cain was an American painter and mosaicist who was born in Henderson, Tennessee, on 27 May 1920, and died on 8 September 1980, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Cain attained the rank of colonel in the United States Marine Corps, having served in World War II and the Korean War when he led a combat art team for the USMC in Korea in 1951. Cain received his bachelor’s degree in art in 1947 and a master’s degree in art in 1948 from the University of California at Berkeley and moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1948.