Walt Kuhn, View of Melrose Street from the Spiers' Porch

Walt Kuhn

American · 1877–1949 · Painter, Printmaker

Walter Francis Kuhn was an American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism. (Wikipedia)

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  1. Walt Kuhn, Lady in Vest, 1939, oil on canvasLady in VestBonhams · $312,575≈ £240,961≈ €266,588Sign up to see
  2. Walt Kuhn, Green Apples, oil on canvasGreen ApplesBonhams · $23,180≈ £16,095≈ €18,832Sign up to see
  3. Walt Kuhn, Three Studies: Trio, Mario and Girl in Clown SuitThree Studies: Trio, Mario and Girl in Clown SuitBonhams · $10,880≈ £8,105≈ €9,345Sign up to see

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Walter Francis Kuhn was an American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism.

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Born 1877, BrooklynDied 1949, White PlainsOccupation Painter, Printmaker, Sculptor, Draughtsman, Illustrator, PhotographerWikidata Q118798 ↗ULAN 500012372 ↗Museum works 3

Also known as Kuhn, Walt Kühn, Walter Francis Kuhn, William Kuhn

Works in museum collections

Open-access images (public domain, CC0 or CC BY) from museum collections, each shown with its credit line and licence.

Walt Kuhn, View of Melrose Street from the Spiers' Porch
View of Melrose Street from the Spiers' Porch1911
Smithsonian American Art Museum ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) — Smithsonian American Art Museum
Walt Kuhn, Portrait of Mrs. Gardner Greene
Portrait of Mrs. Gardner Greene1770
Minneapolis Institute of Art ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) — Minneapolis Institute of Art
Walt Kuhn, Selbstporträt
Selbstporträt1942
Wikimedia Commons ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), Smithsonian Open Access (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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