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Title:Apples from Dorset, Vermont
Artist:Walt Kuhn (American, New York 1877–1949 White Plains, New York)
Date:1937
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1980
Accession Number:1980.238
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): 1937 / Walt Kuhn
[Walker Galleries, New York, in 1939]; Douglas Dillon, New York (by 1972–80; his gift to MMA)
New York. Walker Galleries. "13 Americans," September 5–27, 1939, no catalogue.
New York. Kennedy Galleries. "Walt Kuhn, 1877–1949," October 10–November 7, 1967, no. 21.
Trenton. New Jersey State Museum. "Festival '72: Exhibition of Decorative and Fine Arts from New Jersey Private Collections. Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpture," June 30–August 6, 1972.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "30 Painters: Recent Acquisitions (formerly titled ‘Given and Promised’)," January 26–March 14, 1982, brochure no. 17 (as "Apples from Dorset").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Still Life: 1915–1950," February 1, 1995–January 28, 1996, no catalogue.
Richmond, Va. Marsh Art Gallery. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," January 3–February 28, 1997, no. 13.
Little Rock. Arkansas Arts Center. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 28–May 23, 1997, no. 13.
Newport Beach, Calif. Newport Harbor Art Museum. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 20–August 15, 1997, no. 13.
Tulsa, Okla. Philbrook Museum of Art. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 12–November 7, 1997, no. 13.
Palm Beach, Fla. The Society of the Four Arts. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," January 9–February 8, 1998, no. 13.
Salina, Kansas. Salina Art Center. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 6–May 3, 1998, no. 13.
Salem, Mass. Peabody Essex Museum. "Painting Summer in New England," April 22–September 4, 2006, unnumbered cat. (p. 129).
Piri Halasz. "Public Gets a Rare Peek at Fine Art Lent to Show by Prominent Jerseyans." New York Times (July 30, 1972), p. 60, calls it "Apples from Dorset".
Philip Rhys Adams. Walt Kuhn, Painter: His Life and Work. Columbus, 1978, p. 264, no. 353.
Sabine Rewald inStill Life: The Object in American Art, 1915-1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Marsh Art Gallery, Richmond, Va. New York, 1996, pp. 52, 169, no. 13, ill. p. 53 (color).
Walt Kuhn (American, New York 1877–1949 White Plains, New York)
1930
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