Park
Walt Kuhn
American, 1877–1949
1925
A 1925 lithograph in which Walt Kuhn reduces a city park to broad tonal masses and lively, charcoal-like gestures, aiming to capture the mood of the place rather than its precise details.
You immediately notice the heavy, rounded clumps of foliage set against quick, scratchy lines and a tiny hunched figure at the edge of the composition, producing a quiet, slightly compressed space that feels both natural and stylized.
Kuhn’s print brings modernist simplification and expressive mark-making into American printmaking, linking urban subject matter to a pared-down formal language that helped broaden how artists represented everyday scenes.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
composition: 8 1/16 x 9 7/8" (20.5 x 25.1 cm); sheet: 10 3/4 × 13 1/4" (27.3 × 33.6 cm)
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Department
Credit
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Accession
1082.1940
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