The White Factory
<p>Katherine Schmidt, <em>The White Factory</em>, 1928. Oil on canvas, overall: 24 1/8 × 30 1/8 in. (61.3 × 76.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.336</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1928
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall: 24 1/8 × 30 1/8 in. (61.3 × 76.5 cm)
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist
- Katherine Schmidt
Artist

Painting
Katherine Schmidt was an American painter whose precisely rendered still lifes and landscapes synthesized modernist geometry with careful observation of domestic and natural subjects. Active from the 1920s through the 1970s, she developed a distinctive approach that balanced formal abstraction with representational clarity, working primarily in oil on canvas. Schmidt's work navigated between European modernism and American regionalism without fully committing to either, establishing an independent visual vocabulary that resists easy categorization.
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- Katherine Schmidt
- Year
- 1928
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall: 24 1/8 × 30 1/8 in. (61.3 × 76.5 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1928-164588
Source
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Source
- whitney
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified