235 Something in the Distance

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This item SOLD at 2016 Apr 02 @ 14:34UTC-7 : PDT/MST
Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 30,000.00 USD
Estimated at 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD
Something in the Distance
Artist: Kuhn, BobDate of Birth: 1920-2007
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions: 18 x 22 inches
Signed: Signed lower left
Verso: Signed, titled and dated 2000 verso

It’s almost scary, what Bob Kuhn could do with a paintbrush and a palette of paint. When you examine his works up close, in detail, what you see are daubs and lines and small, amorphous fields of color. Stand back and you see three moose in a piney swamp that rises up a slope. It’s autumn, but late autumn—there’s a hint of snow on the ground. The cow at right looks back at the bull while the second cow lines up behind the fellow with the rack full of blades. “Something” is out there; the tension of it rubs against the pastel beauty of the scene, and that’s what brings all the daubs and lines to life.