Katharine Kuh

Background

Kuh, Katharine was born on July 15, 1904 in Saint Louis. Daughter of Morris and Olga (Weiner) Woolf.

Education

AB, Vassar College, 1925. AM, University Chicago, 1928. Postgrad, New York University, 1929.

Career

Lecturer, teacher history art adult classes, 1930—1939. Owner, director Katharine Kuh Gallery, Chicago, 1935—1942. Director employment bureau school Chicago Art Institute, 1937—1942, public relations counsel, 1942—1945.

Curator gallery art interpretation, 1943—1959. Associate curator modern painting and sculpture, 1947—1953. Curator modern painting and sculpture, 1957—1979.

Editor Bulletin Art Institute Chicago, 1945—1953. Visiting professor art University School Fine Arts, San Miguel, Guanajuato, Mexico, 1938—1940. Art editor Saturday Review, 1959—1971, 1973—1977, World Magazine, 1972—1973.

Consultant San Francisco Museum Art, Southern Illinois University, 1963—1968, First National Bank Chicago, 1968—1979.

Achievements

• Katharine Kuh has been listed as a noteworthy art historian by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • Art Has Many Faces

    (Typography and layout by Gyorgy Kepes, Illustrated with 7...)

  • ART HAS MANY FACES. The Nature of Art Presented Visually. Signed by author
  • The Open Eye (In Pursuit of Art)

Connections

Married George Kuh, January 23, 1930 (divorced 1936).

Father:

Morris Woolf

Mother:

Olga (Weiner) Woolf

Spouse:

George Kuh