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Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s

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Artist(s): Walt Kuhn (Brooklyn, NY, Oct 27, 1877 - Jul 13, 1949, New York, NY)
Title: Acrobat in Green
Date: 1927
Dimensions: 40 7/16 in. x 30 1/4 in. (102.71 cm x 76.84 cm)
Medium: oil on canvas
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, bequest of Lizzie P. Bliss, 1931.88

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Exhibitions: Man Up! Visualizing Masculinity in 19th-Century America

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Twenty-five years of American art, MAM 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Montclair Art Museum, 12/1/1938 - 12/24/1938
Loan to Stevens Memorial Library, Stevens Memorial Library, 11/20/1953 - 7/1/1954
Living with Design, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/22/1959 - 10/23/1959
50th Anniversary Exhibition, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, 10/3/1964 - 11/1/1964
The Works, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/7/1969 - 2/22/1970
Kuhn and the Performer, Currier Museum of Art, 6/7/1975 - 7/6/1975
Walt Kuhn: A Centennial Exhibition, University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire, 3/8/1977 - 4/28/1977
Walt Kuhn: A Classic Revival, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 8/3/1978 - 4/15/1979
The Split-Up: The Beginning of a New Art in America, Addison Gallery of American Art, 3/13/1981 - 4/12/1981
Art II Exhibition, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/14/1983 - 2/14/1983
At Work and Play: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/15/1987 - 7/31/1987
Raymond Saunders: Addison Delectations, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/19/1988 - 3/20/1988
Boys and Girls, Men and Women, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/1990 - 6/10/1990
Faces of the Addison: Portraits from the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/23/1994 - 7/31/1994
Presence of the Past: Decorative Arts at Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/21/1995 - 3/19/1995
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/13/1996 - 7/31/1996
Sculpture in Context, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/17/1999 - 7/31/1999
Foundations: Building the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/12/2001 - 4/1/2001
Images of the World Between: The Circus in Twentieth-Century American Art, American Federation of Arts, 10/19/2001 - 8/19/2002
Chance Encounters: (Un)Selected Works from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/2/2003 - 11/30/2003
Eye on the Collection: Copley to Hopper, Addison Gallery of American Art, 12/21/2004 - 6/12/2005
Eye on the Collection: West to Hopper, Addison Gallery of American Art, 6/17/2005 - 10/16/2005
75 Years of Giving, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/11/2006 - 7/31/2006
Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s, American Federation of Arts, 9/9/2006 - 9/7/2009
Inside, Outside, Upstairs, Downstairs: The Addison Anew, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/7/2010 - 3/27/2011
Under the Big Top: The Fine Art of the Circus in America, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, 1/25/2011 - 5/22/2011
Walt Kuhn: American Modern, DC Moore Gallery, 2/7/2013 - 3/16/2013
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/27/2013 - 7/31/2013
In Tandem: Inspirations and Collaborations, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/12/2015 - 1/3/2016
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2016 - 3/19/2017
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2017 - 7/31/2018
Man Up! Visualizing Masculinity in 19th-Century America, Addison Gallery of American Art, 12/21/2019 - 4/5/2020

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