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Photographs

Archives of American Art

Object Details

sova.aaa.kuhkath_ref439
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw98e270e70-3f78-450c-bce5-fdf668a72622
Collection Creator
Kuh, Katharine
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Katharine Kuh papers
Sponsor
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art
Extent
(Boxes 10-13; 1.2 linear feet)
Date
1875-1993
Archival Repository
Archives of American Art
Identifier
AAA.kuhkath, Series 8
Type
Archival materials
Collection Citation
Katharine Kuh papers, 1875-1994, bulk 1930-1994. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Collection Rights
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Scope and Contents note
Photographs are of Kuh,including several taken by Will Barnet and Marcel Breuer, family, friends, artists and other colleagues, events, residences, and miscellaneous artwork. Photographs of friends and colleagues include an early photo booth portrait of Kuh with Ansel Adams. Other friends and colleagues photographed include Ivan Albright, Alfred Barr, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Willem De Kooning, Edwin Dickinson, Marcel Duchamp, Claire Falkenstein, Alberto Giacometti, poet Robert Graves with Len Lye, Philip Johnson, Gyorgy and Juliet Kepes, Carlos Mérida, José Orozco, Hasan Ozbekhan, Pablo Picasso, Daniel Catton Rich, Carl Sandberg, Ben Shahn, Otto Spaeth, Hedda Sterne, Adlai Stevenson, Clyfford Still, Mark Tobey, and composer Victor Young. Group photographs found here include Angelica Archipenko with Kuh; designer Klaus Grabe; José Chavez Morado; Pablo O'Higgins in San Miguel, Mexico; "The Pre-Depressionists" including Lorser Feitelson, Robert Inverarity, Helen Lundeberg, Arthur Millier, Myron Chester Nutting, and Muriel Tyler Nutting; and colleagues gathered for the 1956 Venice Biennale including Peggy Guggenheim, Frances Perkins, and Harry Winston. Photographs of events include exhibition installations at the Katharine Kuh Gallery and the Art Institute of Chicago. There are also photographs of exhibition openings that depict Fernand Léger, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy at the Art Institute of Chicago, Philip Guston, Jimmy Ernst, Seymour H. Knox, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Mark Rothko at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Additional photographs depict three men posing as Léger's "Three Musicians" and the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the Art Institute of Chicago. There is a photograph by Peter Pollack of an elk skull used as a model by Georgia O'Keeffe. Photographs of artwork include totem poles in Alaska, work by various artists including Claire Falkenstein, Paul Klee, and Hedda Sterne, and work donated to the Guggenheim Museum.
Collection Restrictions
Authorization to quote, publish or reproduce requires written permission until 2019. Contact the Archives of American Art Reference Services department for additional information.
AAA.kuhkath_ref439
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw98e270e70-3f78-450c-bce5-fdf668a72622
AAA.kuhkath
AAA
Record ID
ebl-1562712077712-1562712077769-8

  • Katharine Kuh papers

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