{"product_id":"walt-kuhn-chorus-captain-print","title":"Walt Kuhn Chorus Captain Print","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"hero-title\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eBehind the Feathers: A Portrait That Refuses to Perform\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAt first glance, \u003cem\u003eChorus Captain\u003c\/em\u003e is pure spectacle: an explosion of blush-pink ostrich plumage crowning a young woman in a beaded headband and matching brassiere, a pearl necklace resting against pale skin. It reads, for a fleeting second, like the kind of dazzling showgirl imagery that defined the interwar entertainment world. Look a moment longer, though, and the illusion dissolves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHer gaze is flat. Her mouth, painted in a confident red, sits in an expression that has nothing to do with joy. This is a woman between performances, caught in the unglamorous truth of her profession: exhausted, underpaid and living through the grinding uncertainty of the Great Depression. Kuhn strips away the footlights entirely, leaving only the person underneath the costume. It's this psychological rawness, delivered through a deceptively simple frontal composition, that has made the painting a touchstone of twentieth-century American art history and a favourite subject for anyone building out a considered collection of wall art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBorn in New York City in 1877 and raised near the working docks of Red Hook, Brooklyn, Walt Kuhn's path to painting was anything but conventional. 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