Portrait of My Initials, K.K.

David Smith · 1954

David Smith: American, 1906 - 1965

UnclassifiedUnited States

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Portrait of My Initials, K.K.

1954

Dating: Exact year
Held at: Art Institute of Chicago
Medium: Brush and black ink on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 22.5 × 29.5 cm (8 7/8 × 11 5/8 in.)
Collection no.: 1994.168
Attribution: By the artist

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago

About this artwork

Portrait of My Initials, K.K. — David Smith. 1954.

Medium: Brush and black ink on cream wove paper. Dimensions: 22.5 × 29.5 cm (8 7/8 × 11 5/8 in.).

Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

This spare drawing was made for Katharine Kuh, a pioneering modernist art historian and gallerist who became the Art Institute’s first female curator of European painting and sculpture in 1954.

Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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