Kuhn's work in the 1910s often showed the influence of the modern European painters whose art he had helped to promote. "The Polo Ground" (1914), for instance, contains strong echoes of Raoul Dufy. Other critics noted an affinity for André Derain and the German Expressionists. By the end of the decade, though, Kuhn's paintings had become more traditionally representational again, though he never worked in the manner of an academic realist; his portraits and still lifes are composed of broad painterly effects, strong colors, and thick textures. In brushstroke and intensity, a Kuhn face or still life is unmistakably Kuhn's.