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Untitled (Walter & Tulip Kuhlman)
Untitled (Walter & Tulip Kuhlman)
Untitled (Walter & Tulip Kuhlman)

Untitled (Walter & Tulip Kuhlman)

Artist (American, 1922 - 2005)
Datecirca 1985
Mediumchromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 12 3/4 × 19 3/8 in. (32.4 × 49.2 cm)
Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Anne Noggle Foundation, 2016
Object number2016.2.23
DescriptionImage of a man and a woman seen from behind, facing a landscape with large body of water and foothills. Woman is at right and has curly red hair, teal bathrobe, and has her arm around the man’s waist.
Text Entries
For another photograph of Kuhlman by Anne Noggle, see 3447.23PH.
Noggle used color film only sporadically. For this portrait of her friend  Walter Kuhlman and his second wife Tulip at their home in Sausalito, the coastal California light may have inspired her to shoot in color. Kuhlman was a prominent Abstract Expressionist painter in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Walter Kuhlman (1918-2009) was a core member of the San Francisco Abstract Expressionists and lived in Sausalito. He was a friend of Noggle’s and here she photographs him at home with his second wife, Tulip. According to Noggle’s friend and studio assistant Jim Holbrook, who examined the print with curator Katherine Ware in December 2016, Tulip was jealous of Walter’s friendship with Noggle which led to them asking her to leave during a visit to the house, which ended the friendship.
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