i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any–lifted from the no
of all nothing–human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

e.e. cummings
1894-1962

Walt Kuhn, (1877-1949) was an American painter known for his theatrical subjects painted with unsettling insight.

Sadly, Kuhn is less known for his art than he is as an organizer of the New York Armory show of 1913, which introduced American audiences to European modern art.

Kuhn, like Cezanne (who he greatly admired), destroyed many of his canvases, keeping only those that met his own high standards of excellence.

As he grew older, Kuhn became increasingly difficult and unpredictable. Eventually, he was placed in an institution where he died of a perforated ulcer in 1949.