This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  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.
Kuhn has made numerous expeditions to Africa, Alaska, and throughout Canada and the American West.
He credits Paul Bransom as a major influence because of Bransom's insistence on good, accurate drawing.
Source:
www.kuhnsnhuk.com/bio.html---website of the artist
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Biography from Altermann Galleries and Auctioneers, II:
|  A Realist-Impressionist painter of animals in acrylic on masonite, Bob
Kuhn was born in Buffalo, New York in 1920 and lives in Roxbury,
Connecticut. “If you are only painting the outside of the animal,
you may come up with an attractive result, but it doesn’t say anything
about that animal. If you love the animal, you want to know about it.
Then you want to tell everybody else what you found out—and your means
of telling it is painting.
Studied: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Books and prints: The Animal Art of Bob Kuhn. Several limited edition prints.
Prizes: 2nd and 1st prizes, oil, National Academy of Western Art. 1st prize, Wildlife Art Show.
Expeditions: Numerous trips to Africa, Alaska, Canada.
Membership: Society of Animal Artists.
In Profiles in American Art in 1982, Kuhn as “The Man Who
Paints Animals” says, “I don’t know why I paint animals. All I
know is when I was a very little boy, there was something about animals
that grabbed hold of me. To me, the fun of painting animals is to
be the stage manager, the arranger, the fellow who selects out the stuff
that doesn’t abet the subject and the mood, and to bring in the things
that would enhance the mood. Having the temerity or courage, having
figured things out, to bend them or change them when the painting calls
for it, is the final test of whether you’re functioning as a naturalist
or a painter.”
Resource: Contemporary Western Artists, by Peggy and Harold Samuels 1982, Judd’s Inc., Washington, D.C.
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Biography from THE COEUR D' ALENE ART AUCTION:
|  Bob Kuhn is one of the leading painters of animals shown in dramatic
action. This ability to arrest the animals in motion sets him
apart from the other contemporary painters of North American and
African wildlife.
He was born in Buffalo, New York in 1920. He has been intrigued
since boyhood by the animal kingdom. His earliest contacts with
large mammals were made at the Buffalo Zoo. After completing
public high school in Buffalo, Kuhn studied commercial art for three
years at the Pratt Institute. He worked steadily as an
illustrator from 1940 to 1970, taking only a year and a half off to
serve as a merchant seaman in World War II.
Kuhn was an illustrator for such outdoor magazines as Field and Stream, True and Outdoor Life.
He also designed illustrations for books and advertisements. In 1964,
he started painting for the Remington Arms Company Game Art Calendar.
In 1970, he resigned from all of his commercial accounts in order to
devote himself exclusively to easel painting of wildlife. Since
then he has won awards and medals at such distinguished shows as the
National Academy of Western Art and The Cowboy Hall of Fame Wildlife
Art Show.
Kuhn was influenced by Paul Bransom, who was known as the "dean of
animal artists", and in turn, has assisted many younger wildlife
artists in their careers. He has studied animals on location all
over North America and Africa. Bob and his wife, Libby, now
reside in Tucson, Arizona. |
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Bob Kuhn is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
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