Kurt Kemp
Portrait of a Friend

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Portrait of a Friend
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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

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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

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