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Walt Kuhn
1877Oct, 27

Walt Kuhn

Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (d. 1949)
Walter Francis Kuhn (October 27, 1877 – July 13, 1949) was an American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism.

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