Catherine White Newhall (1840-1917)
- Catherine White Newhall (1840-1917)
- Early Autumn at Cape Ann, 1883
- Oil on canvas
- 14 x 24 inches
- Signed and dated 1883, lower left
- Inscribed, “Early Autumn at Cape…,” on original label, verso
Catherine White Newhall, more commonly known as Kate W. Newhall, was a prolific oil landscape painter whose subjects range from the mountains and rivers of New England—where she was raised—to the coastal scenes of the San Francisco Bay area, where she resided as an adult.
Newhall was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, and spent her youth in Concord, New Hampshire. After discovering her love of and talent for painting, she enrolled at Cooper Union in New York City in her early twenties, from 1863—64, from where she received a certificate in “Drawing and Painting from Still Life.” In addition to her studies at Cooper Union, she also took classes with three reputable landscape and marine painters: Rufus Wright (1832—1900), Carleton Wiggins (1848—1932)), and Mauritz F. H. de Haas (1832—1895). By 1870, she was residing in Brooklyn and had garnered a reputation as a talented landscape painter whose subjects were drawn from the New England countryside. She relocated to Plainfield, New Jersey in 1875, where she remained until 1897, when she travelled with her brother, an itinerant missionary, to California.
