During routine examination of Walt Kuhn's Apples in Wooden Boat at the Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center in Omaha, an important discovery was made—the title of a missing work by Kuhn, Young Pines Among Rocks, had been penned on the back of the stretcher.
Lincoln's Bryan Medical Center became a collaborator in the search for the missing landscape, offering X-radiography which provided enough information on the comparative density of the pigments used by the artist to confirm the presence of a second composition.
Walt Kuhn New York, NY 1877–White Plains, NY 1949 Apples in Wooden Boat Oil on canvas, 1938 24 1/2 × 29 3/8 inches Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Anna R. and Frank M. Hall Charitable Trust, H-203.1940
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