Still Life with Red Bananas

Details

Walt Kuhn (1877-1949)
Still Life with Red Bananas
signed and dated 'Walt Kuhn/1941' (lower left)
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)

Provenance

Sale: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, War Assets Administration, 19 June 1948, lot 44.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature

New York Journal American, November 26, 1946, n.p., illustrated.
H. Weisgall, Advancing American Art, exhibition catalogue, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1947, n.p., illustrated.
P.R. Adams, Walt Kuhn, Painter: His Life and Work, Columbus, Ohio, 1978, pp. 194, 196, 269, no. 414 (as Red Bananas in Iron Dish).
M.L. Ausfeld, V.M. Mecklenburg, Advancing American Art: Politics and Aesthetics in the State Department Exhibition, 1946-48, exhibition catalogue, Montgomery, Alabama, 1984, pp. 75, 97, no. 46, illustrated (as Still Life with Bananas).

Exhibited

Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, April 11-May 1, 1942, no. 14.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and elsewhere, Advancing American Art, October 4-27, 1946.
Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and elsewhere, Advancing American Art: Politics and Aesthetics in the State Department Exhibition, 1946-48, January 7-March 4, 1984 (as Still Life with Bananas).

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Lot Essay

The present work has been requested for the 2012-2014 traveling exhibition, Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy, organized by Mark A. White, Ph.D. and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.

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