Portrait of My Initials, K.K.

Prints and Drawings

1954

David Smith
American, 1906-1965

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.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: David Smith
Title: Portrait of My Initials, K.K.
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1954
Medium: Brush and black ink on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 22.5 × 29.5 cm (8 7/8 × 11 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Katharine Kuh
Reference Number: 1994.168

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