Portrait of My Initials, K.K.

Description

This spare drawing was made for Katharine Kuh, a pioneering modernist art historian and gallerist who became the Art Institute’s first female curator of European painting and sculpture in 1954.

Portrait of My Initials, K.K.

David Smith

1954

Accession Number

129840

Medium

Brush and black ink on cream wove paper

Dimensions

22.5 × 29.5 cm (8 7/8 × 11 5/8 in.)

Classification

ink or chalk wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Bequest of Katharine Kuh