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Murph
Artist
Walt Kuhn
(American, 1877 - 1949)
Date1944
MediumOil on canvas board
DimensionsOverall: 12 3/8 x 9 1/8 in. (31.4 x 23.2 cm), frame: 20 1/2 x 17 1/4 x 2 in. (52.1 x 43.8 x 5.1 cm)
Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer
Object number2019.72
Collections
ClassificationsPainting
Object NamePainting
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
Not on viewCentury
- Twentieth
Signedbottom left: Walt Kuhn / 1944
Inscribedframe verso face right rail: all p [3 illegible characters] 948, well / lease [illegible]
Exhibition HistoryAn American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022
An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005 ProvenanceCollection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1985 from Kennedy Galleries, New York
Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 66, 67 (fig. 8), 68, 190 (ill., color).
An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 13 (no. 41).
Philip Rhys Adams, Walt Kuhn, Painter: His Life and Work (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1978), 272 (no. 461).