WALT KUHN (1877-1949) Stumps 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x...

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTOR
WALT KUHN (1877-1949)
Stumps
signed and dated 'Walt Kuhn / 1940' (lower right) and inscribed with title twice (on the turnover edges) and inscribed with title twice and dated again (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm.)
Painted in 1940.

Footnotes

Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, September 13, 2006, lot 46.
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale.

Exhibited
New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Landscapes by Walt Kuhn, November 12-December 1, 1945, n.p., no. 5.
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Walt Kuhn, October 10-November 7, 1967, p. 40, no. 23, illustrated.
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Selected Highlights of American Art, Fall 1993, n.p., no. 18, illustrated.

Literature
P. Bird, Fifty Paintings by Walt Kuhn, New York, 1940, n.p., no. 49, illustrated.
P.R. Adams, Walt Kuhn, Painter: His Life and Work, Columbus, Ohio, 1978, pp. 192, 268, 289, no. 406.

Walt Kuhn painted the present work while summering in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He reflected, "Ordinary stumps from the field have been pulled together here to inspire this powerful and beautifully interlocked composition which is predominantly ashen in color. One need not be interested in design as such each time but here its reality of expression cannot be escaped." (P.R. Adams, Walt Kuhn, Painter: His Life and Work, Columbus, Ohio, 1978, p. 192.)