Mrs. Gardner D. Stout (Clare Kellogg)

Elsie Dodge Pattee, Mrs. Gardner D. Stout (Clare Kellogg), 1936, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the American Society of Miniature Painters, 1965.30.8
Copied Elsie Dodge Pattee, Mrs. Gardner D. Stout (Clare Kellogg), 1936, watercolor on ivory, sight 4 123 12 in. (10.98.9 cm) rectangle, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the American Society of Miniature Painters, 1965.30.8

Artwork Details

Title
Mrs. Gardner D. Stout (Clare Kellogg)
Date
1936
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sight 4 123 12 in. (10.98.9 cm) rectangle
Credit Line
Gift of the American Society of Miniature Painters
Mediums
Mediums Description
watercolor on ivory
Classifications
Keywords
  • Portrait female — Stout, Gardner D., Mrs. — waist length
Object Number
1965.30.8

Artwork Description

Clare Kellogg’s husband, Gardner D. Stout, was the president of the Board of Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History in New York from 1968 to 1974. Before that, he had been executive committee chairman of the Audubon Society. He edited Shore Birds of North America, and after spending a day amid the coastal wildlife along Spermaceti Cove, New Jersey, remarked to a friend, “I feel so sorry for people who don’t do this.” His wife, Clare Kellogg Stout (1912-1988), shared his interest in conservation, and accompanied her husband on many of his trips. Elsie Dodge Pattee also painted miniatures of the sitter’s two sons, Gardner Jr. and Prentice Stout, which were exhibited with this portrait in 1939.