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Period: 1910s
Medium: Wood
Japanese Tabako/Tool Box with Kiseru -wabi Sabi-Taisho Era-GSY Gallery Select
Located in London, GB
This antique Japanese Tobacco Box, complete with drawers, a kiseru, is a captivating piece of history. The warm hew of the elm is telling a story ...
Category
1910s Showa Wood Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
untitled (Dancing Figure)
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dancing Figure
Wood carving with pigment, c. 1913
Unsigned
Provenance: Kuhn Heirs, Maine
Kennedy Galleries, New York, until 1983
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Category
1910s Abstract Wood Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Baule Colonial Sculpture Ivory Coast, " Carved Wood Statue created circa 1910
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This sculpture was created by an unknown Baule artist from Ivory Coast. It depicts a man in a suit with a white hat. He stands with his hands in his pockets.
18 1/2" x 6 1/4" sculpture
The Baule or Baoulé are an Akan people and one of the largest groups in Côte d'Ivoire. The Baoulé people are talented in African art. Their sculptures are renowned for their refinement, form diversity and the labor they represent. The sculptures do not only include face masks and human figurines...
Category
1910s Folk Art Wood Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Antique Polychrome Wood Carving Igbo Nigeria
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Antique Polychrome Wood Carving Igbo Nigeria Staff decorated with two figures, mounted as a finial on the shaft terminating in a triangular-sha...
Category
1910s Tribal Wood Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Wood
Carved Oak Wood Arts and Crafts Frame with Rabbit, Dog, Bird, Emu Carvings
Located in Miami, FL
Handmade Arts & Crafts channeled oak frame with chiseled relief farm animal decoration on each corner, pin and dovetail construction, artist cipher and date carved verso, 45"h x 31.5"w (outside), 37"h x 24"w (inside)
Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Wood Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Jokwe Maternity, Angola, " Carved Wood created in Africa circa 1910
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Jokwe Maternity, Angola" is a wood sculpture from Africa created circa 1910. The figure kneels on the ground holding a baby in her arms. Her eyes are closed and she is wearing a com...
Category
1910s Tribal Wood Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Nail Fetish Bacongo-Zaire, " Glass, Wood, & Metal created circa 1910
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Nail Fetish Bacongo-Zaire" is a sculpture made of glass, wood, and metal created circa 1910. He has a top hat upon his head and face paint. Their right ha...
Category
1910s Tribal Wood Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Standing Female Nude After Alexander Archipenko Negress (La Negresse)
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Illustrated: "Walt Kuhn, Painter, His Life and Work, by Phillip Rhys Adams, page 67, plate 27, Courtesy of Kennedy Galleries-Kuhn Estate
Kuhn’s sculptures were collected by the noted early modernist collector John Quinn (1870-1924). Among the works in Quinn’s collection was the icon Brancusi Portait of Mlle Pogany, the work that inspired Kuhn to create the wood carving “Mask” (FA10815). Mlle Pogany was chosen by Kuhn for exhibition at the Armory Show, 1913. Other sculptures by Kuhn are in the collections of the Smithsonian Museum and the Heckscher Museum.
The group of 15 wood carvings came from the estate of the artist to his daughter Brenda Kuhn.
The Kuhn Estate (Brenda) originally worked with Kennedy Galleries of New York who published a detailed illustrated catalog of offerings from the estate in 1967. The estate left Kennedy Galleries some time prior to 1983. They established estate representation with Barridof Galleries of Portland, Maine in partnership with Salander O’Reilly Galleries Inc. of New York. This partnership published a monograph catalog on the artist in 1984.
Of our group of 15 works, three of the early c. 1913 examples have Salander O’Reilly labels affixed to them. The group of works were involved in the Salander O’Reilly bankruptcy liquidation where they were bought from. There have been several related examples that have come to auction since the year 2000.
In 1912, Kuhn was one of the founders of the organization Association of American Painters and Sculptors, the organizing body for
what became known as The Armory Show, 1913. The Heckscher Museum exhibition, European Modernism, as Told by Americans, gives insight in to Kuhn’s travels, artistic associations and the influences on his artwork.
“In 1912 Kuhn traveled through Europe securing loans from artists and dealers to represent Impressionism, Post Impressionism and the newer strains of art like Fauvism and Cubism. Inspired by these developments, Kuhn tried out Fauvism and Cubism for himself.”
“Kuhn would later become an adviser to collectors like John Quinn and Lillie Bliss, a supporter of the Armory Show and later one of the founders of the Museum of Modern Art.”
Quinn acquired seven Kuhn sculptures in wood, bronze and gilt bronze which are listed in his estate inventory.
This work is directly inspired by an Archipenko sculpture, Negress (La Negresse...
Category
1910s Cubist Wood Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Ekamka Fetish - Nigeria, " Carved Wood Figure created circa 1910
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Ekamka Fetish sculpture was carved from wood by an unknown Nigerian artist. It depicts a figure holding a mask. The figure has two symbolic horns protruding from his head and he...
Category
1910s Folk Art Wood Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
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