Sandy

1946 · Painting · 76.2 × 63.5 cm

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Walt Kuhn removes the background around his clown in Sandy of 1946, now in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis. The costume and Pierrot hat stand out in simple strong colours and broad strokes, leaving the sitter's posture exposed. Kuhn designed circus and theatre costumes and painted people he encountered there. Clowns became a recurring twentieth-century image of suffering and damaged dignity concealed by makeup. Kuhn wanted viewers to look beyond the immediately recognisable subject, insisting that seeing only a clown would miss his purpose.

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Walt Kuhn’s works exhibit a realism that was dramatically new in the early years of the 1900s, and which continued to be a major stylistic characteristic for the artist throughout the thirties and forties. Kuhn designed costumes for circuses and theatrical productions and chose subjects from the people he met there. Sandy portrays a clown in his costume and Pierrot hat. All background is eliminated, emphasizing the bright, simple colors, bold brushstrokes, and the subject’s revealing posture. The clown was a favorite motif of 20th-century painting, an expression of tragedy and man’s lost dignity hidden behind a mask of makeup. Kuhn clarified the significant meaning behind the seemingly simplistic clown with his artist statement: “If all those who go to my show see nothing but the subject, then my whole endeavor as an artist is in vain.”

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