She started a Ph.D. in Art History at New York University but left the program after a year in order to marry the Chicago businessman George Kuh.

I think immediately of Alexander Archipenko, László Moholy-Nagy, Fernand Léger, Stuart Davis, Isamu Noguchi, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Josef Albers, who had one of his earliest exhibitions in America at my gallery.

It is believed that in November 1938, the group broke into the gallery in the middle of the night, and despite the walls being covered with work by artist Joan Miró, none were damaged.

[6] Despite the challenges posed by the Great Depression and World War II, Kuh kept her gallery running successfully until 1943 when she was hired by the Art Institute of Chicago.

[7] The Art Institute was responsible for organizing the American exhibition, and Kuh selected works by a variety of artists including Jacob Lawrence, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Tobey.