John Laurent, Visiting Artist Lecture 1961

Painter John Laurent talks about his relationship with friend and mentor Walt Kuhn, reading extensively from letters Kuhn wrote to him. Laurent also reads from a pamphlet Kuhn wrote about the Armory Show of 1913 (often known as The International Exhibition of Modern Art of 1913), which he declares “probably the most important thing that ever happened… in American art.” Laurent also discusses a TIME Magazine interview with Kuhn done not long before his death in 1949.