Inscription
center right on memorial: In Memory of / Nicholas M. S. Catlin / Son of / Nathan S. and Phebe C. Catlin / Died / April 19th 1852 / Aged 1 yr. 1 mo 15 days
Provenance
Recorded as from upper New York State. (Thurston Thacher, Hyde Park, New York), by whom sold in 1948 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1955.
Exhibition History
- 1954
- American Primitive Painting from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 97, as Susane Walters, Memorial to Nicholas Catlin.
- 1955
- American Primitive Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.
- 1961
- 101 Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting from the Coll. of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by the Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., 1961-1964, no. 86, color repro., as by Susane Walters. First venue: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.
- 1967
- Fifty Masterpieces of American Painting from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, 1967, no cat.
- 1968
- American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., 1968-1970, no. 86, repro., as by Susan Walters. First venue: Grand Palais, Paris.
- 1970
- American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, organized by the Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., and Mainichi News., Nihobashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, 1970, no cat.
- 1971
- Extended loan for use by The Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1971-1992.
- 1972
- Extended loan for use in Chief Justice Rehnquist's chambers, 1986-1992.
- 1993
- Extended loan for use by Ambassador Swanee Hunt, U.S. Embassy residence, Vienna, Austria, 1993-1997.
- 2016
- Securing the Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture in America, American Folk Art Museum, New York, 2016-2017, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
Bibliography
- 1963
- Heydenryk, Henry. The Art and History of Frames. New York, 1963: fig. 92, as Susane Walters, Memorial to Nicholas Catlin.
- 1970
- American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 118, repro., as by Susane Walters.
- 1979
- Heslip, Colleen Cowles. Mrs. Susan C. Waters, 19th-Century Itinerant Paitner. Exh. cat. Bedford Gallery, Longwood Fine Arts Center, Longwood College, Virginia, 1979: 8-9, no. 30, as by Susan C. Waters (not in exhibition).
- 1980
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 253, repro.
- 1980
- Pike, Martha V., and Janice Gray Armstrong. A Time to Mourn: Expressions of Grief in Nineteenth Century America. Exh. cat. The Museums at Stony Brook, New York, 1980: 75-76.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 413, repro.
- 1992
- Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 547-550, repro. 549.
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