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Title:Apples from Maine
Artist:Walt Kuhn (American, New York 1877–1949 White Plains, New York)
Date:1932
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:George A. Hearn Fund, 1950
Object Number:50.28.2
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): Walt Kuhn / 1932
[Maynard Walker Gallery, New York, until 1950; sold to MMA]
New York. Marie Harriman Gallery. "Seven Paintings by Walt Kuhn," November 1–26, 1932.
American Federation of Arts circulating exhibition. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," January 1951–November 1952 (lent to numerous U.S. venues, including those listed below), no catalogue (checklist no. 10).
Hagerstown, Md. Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," April 1951.
Nashville. Watkins Institute. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," November 5–25, 1951.
Montgomery, Ala. Montgomery Museum of Art. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," December 1951.
Abilene, Tex. Abilene Museum of Fine Arts. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," April 7–20, 1952.
Shreveport. Louisiana State Exhibit Museum. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," May 11–25, 1952.
South Hadley, Mass. Dwight Art Memorial, Mount Holyoke College. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," November 6–25, 1952.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Painting, 1754–1954," December 18, 1953–September 1954.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Feininger, Kuhn, Kuniyoshi, Marin and Nordfeldt," February 24–April 29, 1956, no catalogue.
Arts Club of Chicago. "Hartley, Hopper, Kuhn, Sloan," May 8–June 15, 1956.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Fourteen American Masters: Paintings from Colonial Times to Today," October 16, 1958–January 4, 1959, no catalogue.
Allentown, Pa. Allentown Art Museum. "Four Centuries of Still Life," December 12, 1959–January 31, 1960.
Cincinnati Art Museum. "Walt Kuhn, 1877–1949: A Memorial Exhibition," October 5–November 12, 1960, no. 53.
Tucson. University of Arizona Art Gallery. "Painter of Vision: A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils, Watercolors, and Drawings by Walt Kuhn 1877–1949," February 6–March 31, 1966, no. 67.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum's Collections," October 1–December 7, 1969, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "14 Americans," July 16, 1990–January 2, 1991, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Still Life: 1915–1950," February 1, 1995–January 28, 1996, no catalogue.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Art in Review: Seven Canvases by Walt Kuhn, All Painted This Year, on Exhibition at Marie Harriman Gallery." New York Times (November 3, 1932), p. 24.
"Art Roster: Comment on Recent Openings." New York Times (November 6, 1932), p. X10.
Carlyle Burrows. "Briefer Comment on Current Art Attractions in New York." New York Herald Tribune (November 13, 1932), p. F10.
Lillian Semons. "Art in America and the American Artist." Brooklyn Times Union (November 6, 1932), p. 16.
D. R. K. "Metropolitan Exhibit at Museum." Montgomery Advertiser (December 9, 1951), p. 29.
"Paintings of Famed American Artists to Be Shown Monday." Abilene Reporter-News (April 6, 1952), p. 7-B.
"New Exhibit by American Artists Opens." Shreveport Times (May 11, 1952), p. B9.
"Widely-Known Painters' Exhibit at Mount Holyoke Opens Thursday." Transcript-Telegram (November 5, 1952), p. 3.
Robert M. Coates. "The Art Galleries: American Art, In Quantity." New Yorker (January 2, 1954), p. 47.
Emily Genauer. "Works of 2 Americans at Museum: A Retrospective Painting Show." New York Herald Tribune (February 24, 1956), p. 13.
Stuart Preston. "Art: 'Fourteen American Masters'." New York Times (October 16, 1958), p. 41.
Philip Rhys Adams. Walt Kuhn, Painter: His Life and Work. Columbus, 1978, pp. 141–42, 185, 259, no. 282, pl. 75.
Walt Kuhn (American, New York 1877–1949 White Plains, New York)
1944
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