Critcher Paintings

Portraits identified through Newspaper references:

  1. Oscar E. Berninghaus: Artist and founding member of the Taos Society of Artists.
  2. Minna Booker: Possibly the daughter (who bore the maiden name of her mother) of Lewis Harvis Finney, a Confederate army veteran who served as a lieutenant in the Powhatan Troop, Fourth Virginia Cavalry, and was later employed on the labor board at the Washington Navy Yard.
  3. Glenn Madison Brown: Artist (1876–1938) and member of the Washington Arts Club, he spent most of his life in Alexandria, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., but also studied in Paris in the early 1900s at both the Académie Colarossi and the Académie Julian. In 1986, more than sixty of his etchings and woodcuts were offered at a Sloan estate auction.
  4. Frank Daingerfield: Socialite whose father was a bank president.
  5. Frances Dawson: No information found.
  6. Professor Crawford: Possibly Dr. Angus Crawford of the Episcopal Theological Seminary.
  7. Mr. Doyle of Philadelphia: Possibly the General Manager of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
  8. Mrs. Charles J. Faulkner: A socialite and the wife of a lawyer and former senator from West Virginia, who had famously run away from the Virginia Military Institute to join the Confederate army. She later lived in both Washington, D.C., and Martinsburg, West Virginia. Critcher painted her portrait in May 1903, but it may have been destroyed in the fire that damaged her studio—possibly prompting a second portrait in 1908.
  9. Miss Dorothy Duncas Gatewood: Daughter of James Gatewood (Commodore James Duncan Gatewood, M.D.) and Anne Wythe Mallory (older sister of Catharine Critcher, known familiarly as “Nannie”); she married Earl North of the Army Corps of Engineers in 1913.
  10. Mrs. Richard Gibson: Eleanor Williams French, married to Richard Gibson in 1906. Socialite.
  11. James L. Greenleaf: Civil engineer, Columbia University professor, landscape architect.
  12. Charles W. Hawthorne: Charles Webster Hawthorne was an American portrait and genre painter and a noted teacher who founded the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899.
  13. Mr. Many: Painter Alexis B. Many (1879–1937), a member of the Society of Washington Artists and the Washington Arts Club, was later appointed artistic director of the Washington Opera Company. From 1901 to 1936, he also taught at McKinley High School in Washington, D.C.
  14. Miss Alice Miller of Milwaukee: No information.
  15. John Singleton Mosby: Confederate colonel during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
  16. Mrs. Newhauser: Mrs. M. Newhauser, painter and member of the Washington Arts Club, and wife of Roy L. Newhauser, treasurer of the Arts Club in 1916.
  17. Rev. Bishop A.M. Randolph: Rev. Alfred Magill Randolph graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1855 and trained for the ministry at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. At the age of twenty-two, he was appointed rector of St. George’s Church in Fredericksburg. During the Civil War, he served as a post chaplain in the Confederate States Army. In the postbellum period, he led prominent congregations at Old Christ Church in Alexandria and Immanuel Church in Baltimore. He later became the first Bishop of the Diocese of Southern Virginia.
  18. Becky Sharp: Reference to Thackeray's Vanity Fair and the Langdon Mitchell play?
  19. Bladen T. Snyder: Artist (1864–1923) whom Critcher met while in Paris in the early 1900s, Snyder had painted in France and Holland during the late 1880s and early 1900s—particularly in Paris, Étaples, and Holland, and later in Tripoli. He inherited a plantation in Perry County, Alabama, in 1906.
  20. Aline E. Solomons: Artist, known especially for her portraits, pastels, and watercolors. She served as second vice president of the Washington Art Students League in 1893 and vice president of the Watercolor Club in 1900. A founding member of the Washington Arts Club, she was also an active member and librarian general of the Washington chapter of the D.A.R., becoming vice regent in 1908. In July 1902, she traveled to Europe—though it is unclear where—and returned to Washington in October.
  21. Otto L. Veerhoff: Succeeded his father in managing the Veerhoff Galleries.
  22. Julian Wythe Whiting (General Whiting): Catharine Critcher’s maternal uncle, partnered with his father-in-law after the Civil War in Baker & Lawler & Co., Cotton Factors, and later served on the Board of Directors of the Mobile Cotton Exchange. He was also President of the People’s Savings Bank in Mobile and held the rank of Major General in the Alabama National Guard from 1886 to 1898.
  23. Miss Mary Miller Wood: Virginia socialite.
  24. Helen S. Wright: Helen Saunders Wright, author of The Great White North: The Story of Polar Exploration From the Earliest Times to the Discovery of the Pole (New York: Macmillan, 1910).
  25. Judge T.R.B. Wright: Author of Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1653–1912. Whittet Shepperson, Printers, 1912.
  26. Mrs. Charles Hewett Wright: Socialite; wife of the district attorney of Springfield, Massachusetts.
  27. George-Julian Zolnay (1863–1949): Romanian, Hungarian, and American sculptor called the "sculptor of the Confederacy." Neighbor of Critcher on St. Matthews Alley.
     

Catharine Carter Critcher – Painting Records, retrieved from the Art Inventories Catalog Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS)

  1. Child Looking at Her Reflection in a Brass Jar, ca. 1910, Oil, Beckman, owner: Jane Wilson, Hammond, Indiana, Control Number: 73140005
  2. John Singleton Mosby, Before 1901, Oil,  owner: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, Control Number: 60690029
  3. Portrait of a Young Woman, [No date], Oil,  owner: Adam A. Weschler & Son, Washington, District of Columbia, Control Number: 62171034
  4. Taos Farmers, 1929, Oil on canvas,  owner: San Antonio Art League, San Antonio, Texas, Control Number: 85560008
  5. Jane Wilson (Child Looking at Her Reflection in a Brass Jar), ca. 1910, Oil, owner:  Beckman, Jane Wilson, Control Number: 86640113
  6. Portrait of Star Road, ca. 1925–1927, Oil,  owner: Restricted, Control Number: 73261256
  7. James L. Greenleaf, [No date], Oil on canvas, owner:  National Academy of Design, New York, New York, Control Number: 36271067
  8. Oscar E. Berninghaus, 1926, Oil on canvas, owner:  National Academy of Design, New York, New York, Control Number: 36271068
  9. Indian Women Making Pottery, ca. 1924, Oil on canvas,  owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., Control Number: 08583808
  10. Nova Scotia Fisherman, [No date], Oil,  owner: Savage, Toy Dixon, Jr., Mr. & Mrs., Control Number: 85280088
  11. Taos Hoop Dancer, [No date], Oil,  owner: Anonymous Collection, Control Number: 85280089
  12. L'interrieur, [No date], Oil,  owner: Savage, Toy Dixon, Jr., Mr. & Mrs., Control Number: 85280090
  13. Pueblo Family, 1928, Oil on canvas,  owner: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, Control Number: 68220004
  14. Hopi Pottery Maker, ca. 1927, Oil on canvas,  owner: New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Control Number: 33050570
  15. Juanita and Family, [No date], Oil on canvas,  owner: Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Control Number: 85730056
  16. Covered Wagon, [No date], [No medium],  owner: Unlocated, Control Number: 85730079
  17. Margaret, [No date], [No medium],  owner: Unlocated, Control Number: 85730080
  18. Indian on Horse, [No date], [No medium],  owner: Unlocated, Control Number: 85730081
  19. Texas Cactus, [No date], [No medium],  owner: Unlocated, Control Number: 85730082
  20. Child with Toys, [No date], Oil,  owner: Unlocated, Control Number: 85730083
  21. Light Lightning #2, [No date], Oil,  owner: Unlocated, Control Number: 85730084
  22. Governor of the Pueblo, [No date], [No medium],  owner: Unlocated, Control Number: 85730085
  23. Pueblo Indians, [No date], [No medium],  owner: Unlocated, Control Number: 85730086
  24. Mexican Child, [No date], [No medium],  owner: Unlocated, Control Number: 85730087
  25. Flowers in a Vase, [No date], Oil on canvas,  owner: Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Control Number: 8D500059
  26. A Taos Hoop Dancer, [No date], Oil on canvas,  owner: Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Control Number: 8D500060
  27. Indian Drummer, [No date], Oil on canvas,  owner: Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Control Number: 8D500061
  28. Portrait of Star Road, ca. 1930, Oil on canvas,  owner: Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, Control Number: 56650041
  29. Abraham Lincoln, 1939, Oil on canvas,  owner: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Illinois, Control Number: 13100051 (Artist: Critcher, Catharine Carter, 1868–1964; Healy, George Peter Alexander, 1813–1894 — copy after)