Homage to Leger with K. K. [Katharine Kuh]

Contemporary Art

1982

Will Barnet
American, 1911-2012

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Will Barnet
Title: Homage to Leger with K. K. [Katharine Kuh]
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1982
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100.3 × 1003 cm (39 1/2 × 39 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Y. Hutchinson
Reference Number: 2002.634

Joyce Johnson, “Paying Homage: Late Wellfleet Curator, Critic Honored with Exhibit at New York’s Archives of American Art,” Cape Codder (Jan. 20, 1995), p. 13 (ill.)
Katharine Kuh and Avis Berman (ed.), My Love Affair with Modern Art: Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator (New York: Arcade Publishing, 2012), cover (ill.).
Liesel OLson, with poems by Eve L. Ewing, Chicago Avant-Garde: Five Women Ahead of Their Time, exh. cat. (Chicago: Newberry Library, 2021), 98 (color ill.).

New York, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, Sittings: Portraits by Will Barnet, Nov. 6–Dec. 2, 1982, no cat.
New York Regional Center Gallery, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Katharine Kuh: Interpreting the New, Dec. 13, 1994–Mar. 13, 1995, no cat no., cover (ill.).
Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, Will Barnet: A Timeless World, May 14–Aug. 20, 2000; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Sept. 20–Nov. 5, 2000; Portland Museum of Art, Dec. 21, 2000–Feb. 18, 2001; Little Rock, AR, Arkansas Arts Center, Mar. 22–June 3, 2001.
Chicago, Newberry Library, Chicago Avant-Garde: Five Women Ahead of Their Time, Sept. 10-Dec. 30, 2021, no cat. no.

The artist; sold through Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida to Mr. and Mrs. William Y. Hutchinson, Naples, Florida, Apr. 1, 1991 [Letter from Mrs. William Y. Hutchinson, Dec. 18, 2002; in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 16, 2002.

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