Portrait of William Adams Brown, Sr.
1904
20th Century
15 1/2 in. x 11 in.
Katharine Ludington,
American,
(October 16, 1869–March 7, 1953)
Object Type:
Original Art
Medium and Support:
pastel with some graphite on paper
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of Mrs. John Crosby Brown
Accession Number:
1991.12
Raised in New York as well as Old Lyme, Katharine Ludington became a talented potrait painter and exhibited with the early Old Lyme artists. She abandoned painting in the nineteen-teens and devoted herself to the suffrage movement. She was one of the founders of the National League of Women Voters.