Cowboy on Horse with Christmas Tree

Artist Walter "Walt" Francis Kuhn (1877 - 1949)

Date1937

MediumLithograph and Watercolor

Dimensions5 1/2 x 7 in. (14 x 17.8 cm)

ClassificationsPrintmaking

Credit LineGift of Michael J. Rivard and Carol Susan Rivard

Object number2019.058

DescriptionThough these cowboy caricatures are light-hearted and celebratory, Walt Kuhn received great acclaim during his lifetime for the bold simplicity and emotional intensity of his modernist paintings. He was an accomplished landscape and still life painter, but it was his love of theatre and the circus that defined much of his career, and his paintings of showgirls and circus performers are his best-known works. For several years in the 1920s, he designed and directed stage revues. Kuhn was one of the principal organizers of the landmark Armory Show of 1913, which introduced the American public to avant-garde European art and helped change the course of painting and sculpture in the United States. His work is in the collections of major museums across the country, including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Art Institute of Chicago, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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