June 21, 2022
Graduate Student Schuyler Black-Seitz Visits the Home and Collections of Jon Quirt in California
Schuyler with a large work from Quirt's Lake Harriet Series, c. 1963
a photograph of Walter Quirt with an unknown work, c. 1945
an untitled work from Jon's collection, c. 1940
In May of 2022 Schuyler Black-Seitz received Cathleen M. Murnane Travel Scholarship funds to visit the home and collections of Jon Quirt outside Santa Barbara, California. Jon, the youngest son of artist Walter Quirt, possesses a large collection of his father’s paintings and works on paper, as well as all of his father’s extant files and writings. The privilege to view Quirt’s work and to review his documents in-person was invaluable for researching an artist who remains conspicuously absent from many conventional histories of American art.
