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Walt Kuhn

Three-Cornered Hat

1942

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Three-Cornered Hat

Walt Kuhn

Three-Cornered Hat

Walt Kuhn

Three-Cornered Hat

1942

Physical Qualities Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Fund
Object Number 2006.60
Stock still, clad in a rose-bedecked hat and matching jacket, a circus performer confronts viewers with a stare so frank that one might imagine actor and audience have changed places. He is one of many clowns and acrobats who modeled for Walt Kuhn in full costume and makeup. As a producer of theatrical events and variety shows, Kuhn gained insight into the precarious existence of performers, a subject of interest to artists as far back as Watteau in the early 18th century, carried on by early modernists including Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and Pablo Picasso. Passionate about modern art, and determined to show how modernism was rooted in the works of the Old Masters, Kuhn co-organized the comprehensive Armory Show of 1913, which introduced European modernist painting and sculpture to mesmerized (and often scandalized) Americans.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2006; 511 Gallery, New York; Owen Gallery, New York; Berry-Hill Galleries, New York; Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, NY.
Link Benesch Reinstall (Spring 2008)
AMW Reinstallation 2014
American Wing Rotations 2020
American Wing Rotations 2021
Philip Rhys Adams, "Walt Kuhn, Painter: His Life and Work," Ohio State University Press, November 1978.
"Making the Connection," The Baltimore Museum of Art, Annual Report 2007, p. 33, ill.
Philip Rhys Adams, "Walt Kuhn, Painting: His Life and Work," Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1978.
Mehan McShea, "Walt Kuhn Family Papers and Armory Show Records," Smithsonian Archives of American Art, August 5, 2005.

Inscribed: Signed Walt Kuhn/1943 in lower right corner Titled by Walt Kuhn on back left edge of canvas: "3 Cornered Hat"

Markings: Labels on Stretcher: 1. TO AVOID CONFUSION PLEASE MAKE NO CHANGE IN TITLE "Three Cornered Hat" 1943 By Walt Kuhn 2. Regency Worldwide Packaging, Inc. 33-31 Greenpoint Avenue - Long Island City, NY 11101 - Tel (718 728-8877 Lot # R3574 WRK592740 Piece # Europe America Walt Kuhn "Sander O'Reilley Galleries Loan" 3. Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc. 22 East 80 Street New York NY 10021 4. Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10021 Catalogue No. WK.87.6.1 Lender Courtesy of Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York Exhibition "Walt Kuhn: The Entertainers" (Jan 21 - April 5, 1987) 5. Berry-Hill 11 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021 Tel (212) 744-2300 Fax (212) 744-2838 www.berry-hill.com D/1993 6. Owen Gallery 19 East 75th Street, New York, NY 10021 7. American Modern Exhibition: April 12 - June 12, 2001 Owen Gallery 19 East 75th Street, New York, NY 10021 Labels on back of frame: 1. ACA Galleries 41 East 57th Street, 7th Floor, New York 10022 (212) 644-8300 2. Christie's CAL 297 3. Christie's H 4. Artist: Marsden Hartley Title: The Fisherman's Sister Donor: Lent by Miss Margaret Mallory Media: Oil on Canvas 1934 Size 29 x 23 1/2 inches No. L.68.5.1 Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1130 State Street Santa Barbara, Calif. "LOAN" 5. The Fisherman's Sister Marsden Hartley American, 1877-1943 Oil on Canvas Lent by Miss Margaret Mallory 6. San Francisco Museum of Art Reg. No. 462.70 Artist: Marsden Hartley Title: The Fisherman's Sister Medium: Oil/Canvas Ex. Date: 8-30 1970 Exhibition: Santa Barbara Collects, Collection: Margaret Mallory 7. Collection Margaret Mallory Santa Barbara, California The Fisherman's Widow 1934 Oil Painting by Marsden Hartley 29 3/4 x 24 inches Born Maine 1877 Died Maine 1943

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Walt Kuhn

1879–1948

American, 1880-1949
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