Marguerite Kumm

Marguerite Kumm

(1902 - 1992)

Kumm was born in Redwood Falls, Minnesota. She earned a degree from the Minneapolis School of Art and later studied printmaking at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. She sometimes worked in caricature. Her etching Senate Gallery is clearly inspired by Honoré Daumier's La vente legislatif and was shown in the World's Fair contemporary art show in New York in 1939. Sensitive in its spare treatment, the artist captured in this print the integrity of the man despite the indignities of old age in the set lower jaw and balding pate. Kumm's work is widely distributed in public collections throughout the United States, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. References: Peter Hastings Falk. Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1970. Madison, Conn., 1999. Who's Who in American Art, 1982. Jim Collins & Glenn B. Opitz, eds. Women Artists in America: 18th Century to the Present. New York, 1980. Albert Reese. American Prize Prints of the 20th Century. New York, 1949.

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