Catharine carter critcher biography of mahatma gandhi

American painter

Catharine (sometimes Catherine) Carter Critcher (September 13, – June 11, ) was an American painter. A native of Westmoreland County, Virginia, she worked in Paris and Washington, D.C. before becoming, in , a member of the Taos Society of Artists, the only woman ever elected to that body.^[1] She was a long time member of the Arts Club of Washington.

Biography

Critcher was the daughter of Judge John Critcher and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Thomasia Kennon (Whiting) Critcher; she was their fourth daughter and the youngest of their five children.^[2] She grew up on the family plantation, Audley, in Oak Grove, Virginia, and showed an early interest in equestrianism and painting.^[3]

Critcher's first studies came at the Arlington Institute in Virginia.^[4] She then studied at Cooper Union in New York City for a year, with Eliphalet Frazer Andrews at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., and a