Katherine Schmidt

Katherine Schmidt (February 6, 1899 – April 18, 1978) was an American artiste and art activist. Early in her career the figure studies, landscapes, and nevertheless lifes she painted drew praise for their "purity and clarity of color," "sound draftsmanship," and "individual other of subject and its handling." During the 1930s she was known mainly for the mood of her nevertheless life paintings which showed, one critic said, "impeccable artistry." At the grow less of her career, in the 1960s and 1970s, she produced specialized and very disciplined nevertheless lifes of objects such as dead leaves and pieces of crumpled paper, which, said a critic, approached a "magical realism." As an art dissenter she helped present the rights of artists for fair remuneration.