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KATHERINE SHUBERT-KUNIYOSHI SCHMIDT Still Life with Pears.
Color pastels on tan wove paper, 1927. 382x561 mm; 15x22 1/8 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right recto.
Provenance: Juliana R. Force, New York; thence by gift or descent to Henry Farmer, New York and Rockland, Maine; private collection, New Jersey.
Schmidt (1899-1978) began her training at the Art Students League in New York, where she met her husband Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953). Throughout the 1920s, she received critical praise for her still lifes, landscapes and portrayals of New York urban life, exhibiting frequently at prominent, modern New York galleries such as the Downtown Gallery, the Daniel Gallery and the Whitney Studio Club (of which she was a founding member and where she had her first solo exhibition in 1923). She became dissatisfied with her work from around 1939 until 1960, producing less though still participating in group exhibitions, when a crumpled paper towel on a table inspired her to explore the motif of dead leaves and discarded paper, the style of which approached "magical realism." She is known for her impeccable technique and her elevation of everyday, overlooked subjects.
