Lot 116
  • 116

Walt Kuhn

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Walt Kuhn
  • Trees, Vermont
  • signed Walt Kuhn and dated 1937 (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 30 1/4 by 40 inches
  • (76.8 by 101.6 cm)

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York
Maynard Walker Gallery, New York
Sale: Doyle, New York, May 24, 2005, lot 158

Exhibited

Cincinnati Art Museum, Walt Kuhn Memorial Exhibition, 1960, cat. no. 70
New York, The American Federation of Arts, Realism and Reality, January 1965 - January 1966, cat. no. 22
Burlington, Vermont, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Vermont Landscape Images, 1776-1976, July - October, 1976
Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, Walt Kuhn Retrospective, August 1978 - April 1979, cat. no. 31
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Selected American Masterworks: John Singleton Copley to Jack Levine, 1770 to 1979, December 1979 - January 1980, cat. no. 38

Literature

Philip Rhys Adams, Walt Kuhn, Painter, His Life and Work, Columbus, 1978, no. 363, p. 176
Paul Bird, Fifty Paintings by Walt Kuhn, New York, 1940, p. 34

Condition

Canvas is not lined. SURFACE: in good condition UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: no apparent inpainting
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