Harold Kenneth Russel Kilstrom was an American painter and printmaker, associated in the 1940s -1970s, with Abstract Expressionism. He was primarily known as Kenneth Kilstrom. He was an apprentice of Isamu Noguchi and a member of Stanley Hayter's Atelier 17. While working with Hayter in New York in 1948, he became the first artist known to have used the direct transfer of "real world" photographic imagery on to an intaglio printing plate as an element in a composition in his work "Attack on Marshall Gilbert". Kilstrom produced fifteen of these prints, two of which are held by the National Archives and the Fogg Museum at Harvard University.