Katherine Schmidt

The Old Man Talks
1938

A painting depicting three men sitting on a dock with a city skyline in the background. The man on the left, wearing a brown jacket and khaki pants, points towards the city. The middle man, shirtless and in blue pants, sits cross-legged and looks at the first man. The man on the right, in a pink shirt and dark pants with a hat, smokes a pipe. Various tools and objects are scattered on the ground in front of them. The artwork is signed "Katherine Schmidt '38" in the bottom right corner.

A painting depicting three men sitting on a dock with a city skyline in the background. The man on the left, wearing a brown jacket and khaki pants, points towards the city. The middle man, shirtless and in blue pants, sits cross-legged and looks at the first man. The man on the right, in a pink shirt and dark pants with a hat, smokes a pipe. Various tools and objects are scattered on the ground in front of them. The artwork is signed "Katherine Schmidt '38" in the bottom right corner.

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Date
1938

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 20 × 38in. (50.8 × 96.5 cm) Frame: 26 1/2 × 44 1/2in. (67.3 × 113 cm)

Accession number
86.15.2

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Katherine Schmidt Shubert Bequest

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Katherine Schmidt
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