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About the Artwork

Mallards

1926

Walt Kuhn

1877-1949

American

Unknown

Oil on canvas

Overall: 32 1/4 × 24 1/4 inches (81.9 × 61.6 cm)

Paintings

American Art before 1950

Founders Society Purchase, Merrill Fund

44.63

Copyright Not Evaluated

Markings

Signed and dated, lower right: Walt Kuhn | 1926

Provenance

Walt Kuhn;
1944-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Art Digest 5 (April 15, 1931): p. 6 (ill.).

Bird, Paul, ed. Fifty Paintings by Walt Kuhn. New York, 1940, no. 3 (ill.).

Burroughs, Clyde. “Mallards by Walt Kuhn.” Bulletin of the DIA 23, 6 (1944): p. 51 (ill.).

Walt Kuhn 1877-1949: A Memorial Exhibition. Exh. cat., Cincinnati Art Museum. Cincinnati, 1960, no. 37.

American Realists. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Hamilton. Ontario, 1961, no. 40.

Walt Kuhn: Painter of Vision. Exh. cat., University of Arizona Art Gallery. Tucson, 1966, no. 48.

American Still-Life Painting 1913-1967. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts. New York, 1967, no. 15.

Things: Still Life Painting from the 17th to the 20th Century. Exh. cat., Willistead Art Gallery. Windsor, ON, 1969, no. 26.

Adams, Philip Rhys. Walt Kuhn, Painter: His Life and Work. Columbus, OH, 1978, pp. 102, 105, 128, 204, 250.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Walt Kuhn, Mallards, 1926, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Merrill Fund, 44.63.

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