Kurt Kemp
Portrait of a Friend

Overall recto.
Portrait of a Friend
Overall recto.
ArtistAmerican, born 1957
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Portrait of a Friend
Date2001
MediumGouache on newsprint
DimensionsSheet: 26 3/16 × 20 in. (66.5 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Renée and Stanford Wallace
Object number2023.93
Not on view

Explore Further

ProvenanceThe artist, 2001; [Hook-Epstein Galleries, Inc, Houston, 2001]; Collection of Renée and Stanford Wallace, Houston, 2001-2023; gifted to MFAH, 2023.
Exhibition HistoryHouston, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, “Kurt Kemp: I want to be James Ensor,” 2000.

Houston, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, “Kurt Kemp: My Constellations,” October 27-December 1, 2001

Kurt Kemp: recent Work, Udinotti Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 2011

No Room to Breathe, Kurt Kemp and Chris Jehly, Lower Haters, San Francisco, CA 2011

Pin Up, Kurt Kemp and Mark Perlman Collaborations, Aurobora Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2011

Living Wall, Kurt Kemp and Mark Perlman, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA 2010-11

When a Black Heart Bleeds, Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus, Portland, OR 2009

Kurt Kemp, Ten Year Survey, Center for the Print Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY 2009

Dear Eliesa, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX 2008

Sad Circus (Where's My Twenty?), Collaborative Print Exhibition with Mark Perlman, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA 2007

Irony and Allegory, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN 2005 The Personal Politics, Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA 2007

Intuitive Response, Clark Hall Gallery, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA 2004

The Hen House Drawings, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX 2003

Frogman Press & Gallery in conjunction with workshop and print made at University of South Dakota, Beresford, SD 2003


Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in graphite, right bottom edge: Kurt Kemp [cursive]
Frame verso: Inscribed in graphite, top left corner: Portrait / 2001 / Gouache / 27 1/2 x 25 1/2 [print]
Recto: Signed in graphite, right bottom edge: Kurt Kemp [cursive]
Recto: [none]
Verso: [inaccessible]
Catalogue raisonnéNone

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

Yellow Sleep
Kurt Kemp
2001
Collage of cut printed paper, paper tags and folders, and tracing paper with monotype, graphite, colored pencil, acrylic paint, etching and aquatint, watercolor, charcoal, ink, and ballpoint pen on cut board
2001.765
cropped
Kurt Kemp
no date
Hand colored etching with aquatint, linoleum cut, and collage
98.450
image provided by MFAH conservation department
Milton Resnick
1984
Gouache and watercolor on wove paper
2016.179
Woodman’s Cottage, Bagley Wood [recto]; Study of Young Oak Trees (Bagley Wood) [verso]
William Turner of Oxford
c. 1830
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on blue wove paper (recto); graphite with white gouache on blue wove paper (verso) in a washline mount
2024.16.A,.B
Untitled [Tantric Hindu painting]
2000
Gouache and metallic paint on wove paper, mounted to board
2014.1131
Untitled [Tantric Hindu painting]
2000
Gouache and felt tip pen ink on wove paper, mounted to board
2014.1132
Untitled [Tantric Hindu painting]
2008
Gouache and black paint on wove paper, mounted to board
2014.1130
Aerial View of San Marino
Uberto Bonetti
c. 1935
Watercolor, graphite and black chalk with blue oil pastel and gouache on wove ledger paper
2015.268
Overall recto.
Shirley Jaffe
c. 2000
Gouache, watercolors, wax crayon, and acrylic on wove paper
2023.274
Overall recto.
Grayson Chandler
2022
Watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on wove paper
2022.747
Buffalo Dancer
J.D. Roybal
Mid-twentieth century
Gouache on wove paper
2023.448
Overall recto.
Nikolaj Nikolaevic Karazin
c. 1898
Gouache and watercolor on wove paper
2022.717