position that she held until 1959. During the first year of her tenure with the Art Institute of Chicago in 1954, she gave Mark Rothko his first museum exhibition, and the next year, she arranged the institute's purchase of Jackson Pollock's "Greyed Rainbow". One of Kuh's responsibilities at the Art Institute was curating the exhibition American Artists Paint the City for the 1956 Venice Biennale. The Art Institute was responsible for organizing the American exhibition, and Kuh selected works by a variety of artists including Jacob Lawrence, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Tobey. Following her 1959 resignation from the Art Institute, Kuh moved to New York City, where she worked as an art critic for the Saturday Review until 1978. Kuh authored several books, including Art Has Many Faces (1951), The Artist's Voice (1962, a volume of interviews with 17 artists), Break-Up: The Core of Modern Art (1965, a history of modern art from Monet to Pollock), and The Open Eye: In Pursuit of Art (1971, a collection of her essays from the Saturday Review). Kuh died on January 10, 1994, in New York City. References External links The Ryerson & Burnham Library at the Art institute of Chicago. "Women of the Art Institute" exhibit, July 5–September 5, 2011. Case 4: Katharine Kuh. The Dictionary of Art Historians: Katharine Kuh. "Mining Modern Museum Education" at the Museum of Modern Art, June 25, 2010. Robert Eskridge on Katharine Kuh. 1904 births 1994 deaths American art critics Writers from Chicago American art historians Jewish American historians Women art historians Vassar College alumni University of Chicago alumni American women journalists American women critics 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American historians Historians from Illinois American women historians 20th-century American Jews American women curators American curators