Homage to Leger with K. K. [Katharine Kuh] by Will Barnet
Art Institute of Chicago

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

Will Barnet · 1982

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. 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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • 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.

Literature

Published references

  • 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.).

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