Before the Art Institute of Chicago: Katharine Kuh's early career and American art.

From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: November 1, 2005| Author: Berman, Avis | Copyright information

Katharine Kuh (see Fig. 1) made her name as an advocate of the international avant-garde during her tenure as a curator specializing in modern painting and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. She joined the museum in 1943 and in 1949 she was the first museum professional to catalogue and exhibit the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, with its incomparable examples of the work of Marcel Duchamp (see Fig. 1), Constantin Brancusi, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Paul Kl...

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