Hans Kühn

The Vernon Oral History Project
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Hans Kühn

circa 1906
Photographs
Platinum print
Image: 16 1/4 × 12 7/8 in. (41.3 × 32.7 cm) Primary support: 19 7/8 × 12 7/8 in. (50.5 × 32.7 cm) Mat: 24 × 28 in. (60.96 × 71.12 cm)
The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation and Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin (M.2008.40.1172)
Photography
Currently on public view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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History

Collectors Marjorie and Leonard Vernon had a special affinity for this photograph by Hans Kühn....
Collectors Marjorie and Leonard Vernon had a special affinity for this photograph by Hans Kühn. Maggi Weston, proprietor of the Weston Gallery, recalled the time she first showed the couple this image: "I wasn’t used to people in Los Angeles liking 19th century work, but I took some work with me and called Len when I arrived. I took a Heinrich Kühn, and Marjorie just loved it, it was her favorite. She said, "Oh, that looks like me as a young girl!"
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Bibliography

  • Salvesen, Britt. See the Light: Photography, Perception, Cognition: the Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2013.