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Katherine Shubert-Kuniyoshi Schmidt

Katherine Shubert-Kuniyoshi Schmidt (1898 - 1978) was active/lived in Rhode Island, New York, Florida, Ohio.  Katherine Schmidt is known for Landscape, still life and figure-genre painting.

“At the League my life began to take on a real meaning. I had a great hunger for friends and companionship as a natural reaction to my lonely wanderings. At the League I found the warmth and kindness which I sorely needed.”—Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Katherine Schmidt (1898–1978) was a vibrant young art student when she met Yasuo Kuniyoshi in 1917 in Kenneth Hayes Miller’s class at the Art Students League. As Schmidt recalled, “The Miller class combined [so that male and female students studied together], then we began to develop friends who remained our friends. . . . By the end of that year we had become very close; I was very interested in him.”

For Kuniyoshi, Schmidt was a galvanizing presence in the shy artist’s social life, and his circle grew exponentially after they became romantically involved.

Despite rampant prejudice in the United States against interracial couples, an undeterred Schmidt decided to marry Kuniyoshi in 1919 and was subsequently stripped of not onl   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2536 characters.]  Artist bio

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