Katharine Kuh founded her own Chicago gallery in 1935. Her sixteen years at the Art Institute of Chicago coincided with that institution's emergence as one of the world's greatest museums. She chronicled two decades of contemporary art as a critic at the Saturday Review. Kuh died in 1994.

Avis Berman is an art historian, author, and Edward Hopper expert. She was a personal friend of Katharine Kuh and lives in New York City.