Kathryn Kremnitzer
Kathryn Kremnitzer leads the 19th-Century European Paintings department at Sotheby’s in New York. She earned her PhD in Art History at Columbia University in 2020. Previously, she was a research associate at The Art Institute of Chicago, where she contributed to the exhibitions Cézanne (2022), Monet and Chicago (2020), Manet and Modern Beauty (2019), and at The Metropolitan Museum, where she worked on the exhibition Madame Cézanne.
I unknowingly grew up with Graham’s work—a compact but punchy scene of bathers on a beach in a purple painted frame that still hangs in the entryway of my parents’ apartment. It was the first work of art they purchased together, in the late 1980s, some thirty years before I would come to know Graham and his work—almost by accident—of my own accord.
