Premier Catalog Auction - Session II
Fri, Nov 16, 2018 09:00AM EST
Lot 955
Katherine Schmidt
Estimate: $500 - $700
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
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| $0 | $25 |
| $100 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
(New York/Rhode Island/ Ohio, 1898-1978)
Piece of Brown Paper, 1959, signed lower right "Katherine Schmidt", oil on canvas, 14 x 32 in.; pickled chestnut frame, 21-3/4 x 39-7/8 in.
Note:Exhibited: Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, Watercolors & Drawings, November 19, 1958 - January 4,1959
Note: "At age thirteen Katherine Schmidt persuaded her reluctant parents to allow her to attend Saturday classes at the Art Students League in New York. After completing high school she worked with Kenneth Hayes Miller at the League and there met Yasuo Kuniyoshi, to whom she was married for thirteen years. During the twenties and thirties Schmidt exhibited frequently in New York. Press reviews of her meticulously rendered still lifes and landscapes of the 1920s, and of subsequent portrayals of the homeless and unemployed, were generally favorable. Around 1939, however, Schmidt became dissatisfied with her work and refused solo exhibitions until 1961, when she accidentally discovered a motif that concerned her for the remainder of her life. Having thrown a crumpled paper towel on a table, she returned to find a "beautiful piece of paper lying there." In her late still lifes of discarded paper and dead leaves Schmidt continued to exhibit the mastery of descriptive realism that had characterized her early work."
-Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1987)
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