Brooklyn Museum: American Art: Susie Kent Southwick

Susie Kent Southwick

The sitter was the only daughter of John and Ella Southwick, prominent Brooklyn residents who lived in a handsome brownstone house at 34 Livingston Street. John Southwick, a collector of paintings, owned Lake George, by John F. Kensett. and A Catskill Stream, by Asher B, Durand, both of which Susie Southwick would give to the BMA in 1933 in memory of her parents. Southwick also commissioned a series of family portraits during the 1870s. Including this one of Susie seated in a landscape setting by the genre painter Thomas Waterman Wood.

Artist: Thomas Waterman Wood , American, 1823-1903
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dates: 1873
Dimensions: 12 x 9 7/8 in. (30.5 x 25.1 cm)
Signature: Signed at lower center of oval image: "T.W. Wood / 1873"
Collections: American Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, 5th floor
Accession Number: 1999.54.7
Credit Line: Gift of the American Art Council
Image: Overall, 1999.54.7_transp6204.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Collections: American Art: Susie Kent Southwick