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- Titles Miss X (Proper)
- Artist Walt Kuhn, American, 1877 - 1949
- Medium oil on canvas
- Dimensions 30 1/2 × 25 3/8 in. (77.5 × 64.5 cm) frame: 39 × 33 × 2 3/4 in. (99.1 × 83.8 × 7 cm)
- Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by the Harold and Regina Simon Fund, 1989.20
- Work Type painting
- Classification Paintings
- Signature Recto, lower right: Walt Kuhn 1932
- Marks None
- Inscription Verso, top stretcher bar, left, printed label: CIRKER’S / FLUSHING-GRAMERCY-HAYES / New York – Long Island / LOT # 9020 / PIECE # 34 [or 39] Verso, top stretcher bar, left, black stamp: WAKT KUHN Verso, top stretcher bar, center left, typed label with red border: Property of Brenda Kuhn / Given to Brenda by Vera Kuhn / 12/30/53 Verso, top stretcher bar, center, black stamp: SIMPLEX / 25 Verso, top stretcher bar, right, black pen: “MISS X.” – 1932 / WALT KUHN Verso, top stretcher bar, center right, black stamp: TO AVOID CONFUSION PLEASE / MAKE NO CHANGE IN TITLE Verso, left stretcher bar, upper left, black marker: B-2-2 [underlined] Verso, left stretcher bar, center, black stamp: SIMPLEX / 30 Verso, right stretcher bar, center, white chalk: WALKER Verso, right stretcher bar, center, black stamp: WALT KUHN / 66 [rest of line illegible] Verso, bottom stretcher bar, center, green crayon: BOX 2 [marked out with blue crayon] Frame, recto, bottom center, black paint on plate: MISS X / 1932 Frame, verso, top rail, upper left, typed label: Cincinnati Art Museum / Walt Kuhn Memorial Exhibition 1960 / Walt Kuhn MISS X 1932 / Lent by the Kuhn Estate / 23.1960.31 [in pen] / Cat. #56 / Box # 8 #2 Frame, verso, top rail, center left, green printed label with pen additions: NAME / G.M. / RECEIPT & ITEM NO. / MO74066 / PHOTO A16B / DISPOSITION [writing marked out] Frame, verso, top rail, center, pink chalk: BOX 822 Frame, verso, top rail, upper right, black marker: 211005-63 Frame, verso, bottom right, typed label: Walk Kuhn / painting: Miss X, 1932 / oil on canvas / 30 ½ x 25 3/8 x 2 7/8 in. (77.5 x 64.5 x 7.3 cm) / Museum purchase with funds provided by the Harold and Regina Simon Fund / 1989.20 Removed from recto, backing paper, now in object file, typed label: Greenville County Museum of Art / 420 College Street / Greenville, SC 29601 / WALT KUHN / Miss X / oil on canvas / c. 1832 / signed: LR in oil "Walt Kuhn 1932" / size: Unf. 30 1/2" x 25 1/8 " (77.47 x 63.82cm) / Fr. 33" x 37" (83.82 x 93.96cm) / Donor: Mrs. Brenda Kuhn / A. 80.21.15 (1818) Removed from recto, backing paper, now in object file, typed label: Greenville County Museum of Art / 420 College Street / Greenville, SC 29601 / WALT KUHN / Miss X / Oil on canvas / 30 1/2" x 25-1/8" / GCMA #1818 / THE ASHCAN SCHOOL AND ITS INFLUENCES / September 20 - October 21, 1981 Removed from recto, backing paper, now in object file, typed label: Greenville County Museum of Art / 420 College Street / Greenville, SC 29601 / WALT KUHN / Miss X / Oil on canvas / H. 30-1/2" x W. 25-1/8" / Signed, lower right (oil): "Walt Kuhn 1932" / 1932 / Gift of Brenda Kuhn / GCMA #1818 Removed from recto, backing paper, stamped, red plastic label: LOANED BY THE KUHN ESTATE Removed from recto, backing paper, now in object file, typed label: FINE PRINTS AND AMERICAN PAINTINGS / Kennedy Galleries, Inc. / Founded 1874 by H. Wunderlich / 20 East 50th Street / New York, N.Y. 10022 / K63 / Kuhn, Walt / "Miss X", 1932 / oil on canvas / 30 x 25 inches / 68 [in pen, and circled] / Cat. # 2 Oct. '76 [in marker] Removed from recto, backing paper, now in object file, typed label: Kennedy Galleries, Inc. / Founded 1874 by H. Wunderlich / 40 W. 57 St., 5th Floor, N.Y. 10009 / 212-541-9600 Telex 14-8381 / ARTIST Kuhn, Walt / DATES 1877-1949 / TITLE Miss X, 1932 / SIGNED l.r. "Walt Kuhn" / SIZE and MEDIUM 30x25" / STOCK NO. 211005-63 / NEG. NO. 2063 Removed from recto, backing paper, now in object file, typed label: 211005-63 [in black marker] / THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA / TUSCON, ARIZONA 85721 / UNIVERISTY ART GALLERY / Walt Kuhn - A Painter of Vision / Feb. 6-March 31, 1966 Removed from recto, backing paper, now in object file, typed label: 10. MISS X, 1932 / oil on canvas; 30 x 25 inches / Signed lower right: "Walt Kuhn" Removed from recto, backing paper, now in object file, typed label: From MAYNARD WALKER - 117 East FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET / NEW YORK 22 / No. 56 Miss X by WALT KUHN / 30 x 25 inches 1932 Object file, removed from work, circular paper hang-tag with metal rim, pen: #2 / 05XXX Removed from recto, according to note in object file: Name: G.M. / Receipt and Item No. MO74066/03 / Photo: A16B
- Provenance Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), 1932; inherited by his wife Vera Spier Kuhn (1885-1961); gift to their daughter Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993), December 30, 1953 [see note 1]; auctioned at Sotheby’s Arcade, New York, April 14, 1989, lot 149; purchased by the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 1989
1. According to inscription on verso.