Bob Kuhn

1920 – 2007

Bob Kuhn

BORN IN

Buffalo, New York

KNOWN FOR

Wildlife painting, magazine illustration

NAME VARIATIONS

Robert F Kuhn

Selected wildlife painter of the year in 1998 by the Friends of Western Art in Tucson, Arizona, Robert Kuhn was born in Buffalo, New York in 1920, and was educated at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.  He was an illustrator for most of the top outdoor magazines during the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, and moved on to gallery work in 1970.

A Wildlife Art article, September 2001, labelled Kuhn as “one of the last direct descendants from the Golden Age of Illustration…(a period) that produced the most competent legion of realist painters this continent has ever known.”

In 2001, the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming held an unprecedented retrospective spanning Kuhn’s 60-year career.

Sold At Lone Star Art Auction

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Bob Kuhn
(1920 – 2007)

Cape Buffalo

conte crayon on paper
9 x 10.5 inches
Sold for: $3,000
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Bob Kuhn
(1920 – 2007)

Bighorns

conte crayon on paper
9.25 x 12.25 inches
Sold for: $3,300
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Bob Kuhn
(1920 – 2007)

Watchful Eyes

acrylic on board
12.5 x 10 inches
Sold for: $20,700
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Bob Kuhn
(1920 – 2007)

On Desert Slopes

acrylic on board
14 x 18 inches
Sold for: $72,000
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Bob Kuhn
(1920 – 2007)

North Country

, 1991
acrylic on board
21.5 x 24 inches
Sold for: $102,000