His portraits of circus and vaudeville entertainers are some of the most memorable, confidently painted works of twentieth-century American art. They are reminiscent of commedia dell'arte actor portraits done by the French masters centuries earlier. The Tragic Comedians (1916) in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and The White Clown (1929) in the collection of the National Gallery of Art are intense, arresting images and are among his most respected paintings. Other works of his are held in the permanent collections of museums such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Smart Museum of Art, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Joslyn Art Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the McNay Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, the Pennsylvania Museum of Fine Arts, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Frye Art Museum, the Currier Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Selected catalogues and exhibitions Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) - American Modernist at sullivangoss.com DC Moore Gallery Exhibition, "Trees," June 11-August 7, 2009 DC Moore Gallery Exhibition, "Modern America 1917-1944," November 17-December 23, 2011 DC Moore Gallery Exhibition "Walt Kuhn: American Modern," February 7-March 16, 2013 1908-12, 1921, 1945-49: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts exhibitions 1911: Madison Gallery, New York 1913: Armory Show, New York 1932-48: Whitney Museum of American Art exhibitions 1966: University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson 1967-68, 1972, 1977, 1980: Kennedy Galleries, New York 1984: Barridoff Galleries, Portland, ME 1987: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1987: Salander O’Reilly Galleries Inc., New York 1989: Maine University Art Museum, ME References Sources Adams, Philip Rhys. Walt Kuhn: Painter, His Life and Work. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1978. Brown, Milton. The Story of the Armory Show. New York: Abbeville, 1988 edition. "Walt Kuhn: American Modern" (exhibition catalogue), DC Moore Gallery, March 2013 Loughery, John. "The Contradictions of Walt Kuhn," Arts Magazine (April 1985), pp. 106–107. External links Biography Walt Kuhn, Kuhn Family Papers, and Armory Show records online at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art DC