DAILY FLIRTATIONS

From Showgirls to Circus Performers

3/22/2014

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Chico in Silk Hat, Walt Kuhn, 1948
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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.

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