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Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer, the daughter of Polish immigrants, Rebecca and Joseph Rittenberg, was born in New Orleans in 1912. The Rittenberg family owned a pawn shop and lived off of St. Charles Avenue. Kohlmeyer was the youngest of four children. She had two older brothers, Leon and Phillip, who both tragically died as young men, and…
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Bradley Sumrall, Curator of the Collection at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, wishes Ida Kohlmeyer a Happy Birthday! Born on November 3, 1912 in New Orleans to immigrants from Poland, Ida Kohlmeyer (1912–1997), is one of the most respected abstract painters of the American South. She studied English Literature at Tulane University,…
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Curator Bradley Sumrall answers questions about The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction, on view now at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. What inspired you to create The Whole Drum Will Sound? The Whole Drum Will Sound came out of a familiarity with the Ogden’s Permanent Collection. I’ve been working with the…