Portrait, n.d.
Black crayon on paper, 18 x 11-1/4 inches
Collection, The Speed Art Museum, Louisville

Dorothy (Smith) Kohlhepp was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1907 to Henry F. and Josephine (Downing) Smith. The New England native studied at the Massachusetts School of Fine Art in Boston for four years. In 1933 she entered the Academie Julian in Paris becoming a pupil of French cubist painter Andre Lhote. Her association with Lhote lasted for twenty years. In France she met Norman Kohlhepp, whom she married in 1930. Though an engineer by training, Norman was a great supporter of the arts and had formed the American Students and Artists Club in Paris. Dorothy encouraged her husband to become a painter, an occupation he pursued. Dorothy and Norman later moved to his hometown of Louisville where she continued her artistic pursuits. The couple became world travelers painting in faraway places as well as at home. Dorothy served as the 1945-46 President of the Art Center Association and exhibited primarily in Louisville. Dorothy Kohlhepp died May 11, 1964 in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

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