Mi è impegno gradito, presentare ai miei Concittadini, le Opere della Pittrice Stautunitense CATCHI. Essa visita da più anni l'Italia, opera in Versilia, per il passato lavorò nel meridione, ed anche a Genova studiò il nostro severo Paesaggio. A mio giudizio questi esodi operativi, hanno accresciuto le nozioni del suo sapere pittorico; direi al punto di quasi diversificare, nella costanza dello stile, la sua produzione.

In questa constatazione vedo un positivo entusiasmo di CATCHI per la nostra Terra, un desiderio di comporre sulla tela i ricordi ammirativi di una natura paesaggistica per Lei tutta nuova; sensibilissima a questi valori, dimostra uno studio di approfondimento dove nella rielaborazione del quadro indica abilità di valore Mediterraneo; come nei suoi quadri ch'io ho potuto osservare nel suo Studio di Manhasset, nel Long Island, Essa è fedelmente unita alle sorprendenti intensità cromatiche di quella natura.

La scoperta del paesaggio Italiano, ha trasformato la sua tavolozza, si è resa edotta delle tenui velature, delle trasparenze azzurre e argentee, valori primari della nostra Terra.

In ogni struttura paesaggistica come in ogni altra composizione, è evidente un pretesto nobile per concedere all'Animo Suo, estremamente sensibile, una evocazione di singolare Poesia.

LORENZO GARAVENTA

It is with great pleasure that I present the works of the American artist CATCHI to my fellow citizens. She has been coming to Italy for many years, usually working in Versilia, but she has also worked in the south, and in Genoa, too, she has studied our severe landscapes. In my opinion, these working visits have enriched her pictorial experience, adding variety and new dimensions to the basic constancy of her style.

One can note the artist CATCHI's positive enthusiasm for our country - her wish to record on canvas the admiring memories of a landscape completely new to her; in her extreme sensitivity she combines a deep study of our Mediterranean land scape with a great capability of recapturing its charm.

Just as in those paintings which I have seen in her studio at Manhasset, Long Island, she remains faithfully close to the striking intensity of Nature. Furthermore, her discovery of the Italian landscape has transformed her chromatic range, adding to it new delicate shades - the transparent azure and silver which form the primary colours of our country.

In each landscape painting, as in all her other compositions, everything seems to become - to her highly sensitive soul - a noble pretext for an evocation of unique Poetry.

LORENZO GARAVENTA

CATCHI - Two Grist Mill Road, Plandome Mills, Manhasset -
New York 11030 - U.S.A.

## Suoi Maestri

Leon Kroll - Harry Sternberg - Hans Hoffman.

## Mostre

Galleria A.C.A. - Artisti Alleati - Casa Lever - Arti Contemporanee - Museo di Springfield, Massachusetts - Accademia di Belle Arti, Connecticut - Artisti Knickerbocker, Arte U.S.A. - Galleria dell'Accademia Reale, Edinburgh Scotland - Mostra della Pepsi Cola, Gallerie d'Arte della Società di Birmingham, Inghilterra - Associazione Nazionale delle Donne Artiste, Mostra viaggiante U.S.A., 1957 e 1965, Francia 1965 - Museo d'Arte Denver, Colorado - Mostra Personale alla Galleria Alfredo Valente, New York - Galleria Universale, Atlanta, Georgia - Galleria Harbor, L.I. - Galleria Spinetti, Firenze, Italia - ed in diverse altre Gallerie e Musei.

## Mostra di Congresso

Ricevimento e Mostra di 25 Quadri al Rayburn Hall, Washington D.C.
Aprile 1968, sotto gli auspici del Congressista Lester L. Wolff, Maggio
1968.

## Opere in Collezioni Private

Senatore George Mc Govern - Patricia Murphy - John Daly - Warren
Hull - Robby Riggs - Università Hostra, New York; ed altre ancora.

## Premi

Medaglia d'Onore in memoria di Lillian Cotton - Medaglia d'Onore del'L'Associazione delle Donne Artiste - Vincitrice per tre volte consecutive del Primo Premio Guild Hall, New York - Grunbacker Award (1963) - Primo Premio Galleria Ligoa Duncan - Secondo Premio Museo Riverside - Primo Premio Mostra Regionale del Long Island, New York - Primo Premio in Memoria di Irene Sickler Feist (1971).

## Incarichi conseguiti

Iscritta nell'esecutivo del Consiglio Consultivo del Registro degli Americani Preminenti, sede di Fama professionale - Vice Presidente della Associazione Nazionale delle Donne Artiste - Partecipante all'Associazione della Piattaforma Internazionale, Società delle Donne Artiste di New York, Artisti Audubon - Iscritta nel Libro «WHO'S WHO» delle Donne Americane Dizionario della Bibliografia Internazionale - Articoli ed illustrazioni sulla Rivista «Club Life North Shore» - New York Times - Newsday - Long Island Press - Briarcliff Circle - Suoi quadri sono stati riprodotti a colori sul libro «Prize Winning Art» negli anni 1965-66-67. «La Nazione» Firenze - «Il Telegrafo» Livorno.

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CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBITION

1. THE ESCORT (OIL)

2. PHILADELPHIA ROOM (OIL)

3. MR. MASTIN ON ROCKER (OIL)

4. LEAVES AND LEMONS (OIL)

5. PAOLA (OIL)

6. TOGETHER, BUT ALONE (OIL)

7. THREE NUDES (OIL)

8. GUATEMALAN (OIL)

9. REFLECTION (OIL)

10. STORM OVER MONTAUK (OIL)

11. ACCEPTANCE (OIL)

12. ADAM (OIL)

13. BUTTERFIELD 8 (OIL)

14. THE BATH (OIL)

15. MOOD INDIGO (OIL)

16. CARDANUS (OIL)

17. COUNTRYSIDE (OIL)

18. CONSTRUCTION (WATERCOLOR)

19. SUN BATHERS (OIL)

20. THE END OF THE HARBOR (OIL)

21. MR. ELLENDER (OIL)

22. SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT (OIL)

23. HARMONY IN GREEN (OIL)

24. HAUL OUT (OIL)

25. DON QUIXOTE (ACRYLIC)

26. THE JUDGE (OIL)

27. YOU WASH THE DISHES WHILE I GET DRESSED (OIL)

28. MEDICARE (OIL)

29. MING LEE (OIL)

30. MAN OF LA MANCHA (OIL)

31. RUTH (OIL)

32. OLIVE TREES AT DUSK (OIL)

33. PAISLEY INTERIOR WITH FLOWERS (OIL)

34. MARIAH (OIL)

35. STILL LIFE WITH LEMON (OIL)

36. SPRING (INK)

37. THE SHIP YARD (OIL)

38. SIGNALS (COLLAGE)

39. TRIMMING THE TREE (OIL)

40. UNADORNED (CASEIN)

41. BATHED IN LIGHT (OIL)

42. BUON APETITO (OIL)

43. CRUCIFIXION (WATERCOLOR)

44. SELF PORTRAIT (WATERCOLOR)

45. INDIAN MAIDEN (INK RESIST)

46. LIBERTY HILL AT NIGHT (INK RESIST)

47. BARTON SPRINGS (CRAYON AND WATERCOLOR)

48. ENVIRONMENT (MIXED MEDIA, & ACRYLIC, OIL)

49. THE LIBRARIAN (INK RESIST)

Two Gristmill Road, Manhasset, New York 11030

Telephone (516) 627-7123

Catch

**STUDIED** with Leon Kroll, Harry Sternberg and Hans Hoffman in New York City and with Angelo Savelli in Italy.

**EXHIBITED** in shows at A. C. A. Gallery, Allied Artists, Lever House, Contemporary Arts, Springfield (Mass.) Museum. Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Knickerbocker Artists, Arts U. S. A., Royal Academy Galleries, Edinburgh, Scotland; Pepsi Cola Show, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Galleries, England. New England Exhibition, Silvermine, Denver Art Museum, Colorado, Harbor Gallery, Huntington, N. Y., One man show at Alfredo Valente Gallery, N. Y. C., Country Art Gallery, Locust Valley, N. Y., Universalist Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., Spinetti Gallery, Florence, Italy and others.

**CONGRESSIONAL EXHIBITION**

Reception and preview of 25 paintings at Rayburn Hall, Washington D. C. April 10, 1968. On exhibit in the offices of Congressman Lester L. Wolff April 11, 1968 thru May 30, 1968.

**RECIPIENT** The Lillian Cotton Memorial Award and the Medal of Honor, National Association Women Artists, Irene Sickle Feist Memorial Prize 1971. Three time winner of First Prize, Guild Hall, East Hampton, Grunbacker Award (1963). First Prize Ligoa Duncan Gallery. Second Prize Riverside Museum. Three time winner of First Prize Peninsula Artists Exhibition. First Prize Long Island Regional Show. First Prize Long Island Open and Manhasset Art Association, and others.

**REPRESENTED** in the collections of Senator George Mc Govern, Patricia Murphy, John Daly, Warren Hull, Bobby Riggs, Hofstra University, and others.

**LISTED** in WHO'S WHO of American Women, WHO'S WHO in the East, and Dictionary of International Biography.

**MEMBER** Executive Advisory Council of the National Register of Prominent Americans, Executive and Professional Hall of Fame, second Vice President of National Association of Women Artists, The International Platform Assoc., New York, Society of Women Artists, Inc., Audobon Artists, Art Advisory Council, Port Washington, N. Y. and Manhasset Art Association (President 1962 - 3 - 4).

**ARTICLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS**

New York Times, Atlanta Constitution, Newsday, Long Island Press, Manhasset Press, Manhasset Mail, Club Life Magazine and Briarcliff Circle.

"Prize Winning Art", 1966 and 1967.

CATALOG OF THE EXHIBITION

<table><tr><td>1. GIARDINO DI FILIE</td><td>7 ftx12 ft</td><td>14. SPRING HATS</td><td>30"x30"</td></tr><tr><td>2. GATTO IN GIARDINO</td><td>7 ftx9 ft</td><td>15. AVAIRY</td><td>27"x40"</td></tr><tr><td>3. ACCEPTANCE</td><td>38"x32"</td><td>16. LAURIE</td><td>12"x17"</td></tr><tr><td>4. KALANCHOE</td><td>16"x20"</td><td>17. BUTTERFIELD 8</td><td>16"x20"</td></tr><tr><td>5. BEVERLY AND THE CHILDREN</td><td>24"x30"</td><td>18. NUDE AND FLORAL DRAPE</td><td>40"x35"</td></tr><tr><td>6. SAND HOG</td><td>30"x25"</td><td>19. ADAM</td><td>18"x12"</td></tr><tr><td>7. DEJEUNER BOURGUINNONE'</td><td>40"x30"</td><td>20. SUN BATHERS</td><td>26"x36"</td></tr><tr><td>8. FALL BOUQUET</td><td>36"x15"</td><td>21. BY THE FIRE</td><td>28"x40"</td></tr><tr><td>9. AERIALIST</td><td>29"x23"</td><td>22. SUNRISE OVER LIBERTY HILL</td><td>30"x24"</td></tr><tr><td>10. STORM OVER LIBERTY HILL</td><td>24"x30"</td><td>23. RESTING</td><td>34"x19"</td></tr><tr><td>11. PAOLA</td><td>24"x20"</td><td>24. PAINTED WHILE IN LOVE</td><td>23"x29"</td></tr><tr><td>12. MOTHERHOOD</td><td>30"x24"</td><td>25. STILL LIFE TAPESTRY</td><td>23"x18"</td></tr><tr><td>13. STILL LIFE WITH WHITE PITCHER</td><td>40"x48"</td><td>26. A PENSIVE MOOD</td><td>18"x14"</td></tr></table>

## STUDIED

With Leon Kroll, Paul Wood and Hans Hoffman in New York City, and Angelo Savelli in Italy.

## ONE WOMAN SHOWS

Alfredo Valente Gallery, N.Y.C.

Country Art Gallery, Locust Valley, N.Y.

Gallery d'Arte Spinetti, Florence, Italy, 1973

Gallery Coin d'Art, Genova, Italy, 1974

Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, 1975

The Galleria, Austin, Texas, 1975

## ARTICLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

Color plates of her paintings appear in the publication PRIZE WINNING OIL PAINTINGS, for the years 1966 and 1967. In July 1975 her painting "Dejeuher Bourguinonne" was featured on the cover of LA REVUE MODERNE, the French national art magazine.

## LISTED

In Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in the East, The World Who's Who of Women, The Two Thousand Women of Achievement, and Dictionary of International Biography. Congressional Record 4-II, 1968.

## CONGRESSIONAL EXHIBITION

In 1968, Catchi was the first woman artist in New York to exhibit in Washington by Congressional invitation, with a one-woman show in Sam Rayburn Hall. This is her second Congressional Exhibition.

## RECIPIENT

The Lillian Cotton Medal of Honor. Three time winner of First Prize, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton. National Association of Women Artists. Grumbacker Award. Riverside Museum Award of Merit. First Prize Ligoa Duncan Gallery.

First Prize Long Island Regional Show. Irene Sickle Feist Memorial Prize (1971). First Prize National Association of Women Artists (1973). First Prize International Platform Association (1973). Grand Prix Award, Operation Democracy, Locust Valley, N.Y. (1974). First Prize Long Island Open and Manhasset Art Association, and others.

## IN THE COLLECTION OF

SENATOR GEORGE McGOVERN,
PATRICIA MURPHY, JOHN DALY, WARREN HULL,
AND
MANY OTHERS.

MEL FOWLER - Sculptor taille directe

Post Office Box 255, LIBERTY HILL, Texas 78642

Telephone A.C. 512-778-6006.

## RECENT EXHIBITIONS

### 1976

One-man Exhibition, Art Council, Port Washington, N.Y.

One-man Exhibition, U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C.

Exhibition, Jewish Community Center, Sands Point, N.Y.

### 1975

One-Man Exhibition, Southwestern University.

One-Man Exhibition, McCann-Wood Gallery, Lexington, Ky.

One-Man Exhibition, Texas Lutheran College.

State Exhibition, Jewish Community Center, Houston, Tx.

National Biennial, Creative Collaboration, Houston, Tx.

International Sculpture Exhibition, Pietrasanta, Italy.

State Exhibition, Lakeway (Austin) Tx.

### 1974

International Exhibition, Massa, Italy.

International Exhibition, Quercetta, Italy.

International Sculpture Symposium, Galerie Beck, Homburg, Germany.

State of Texas House of Representatives Constitutional Convention.

State of Texas House of Representatives Special Session.

State of Texas Permanent Travelling Exhibition.

Regional Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association.

Four State Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum.

### 1973

National Exhibition, Beaux Arts Gala, Laguna Gloria Art Museum.

National Exhibition, Creative Collaboration, University of Houston.

National Exhibition, 62nd Annual Texas Fine Arts Association Exhibition.

State Exhibition, Elisabet Ney Centennial Exhibition.

National Invitational Western Art Exhibition.

Art League of Houston Studio Exhibition.

## RECENT INFORMATION

Listed in first edition of "Who's Who in German Art"

Listed in "Who's Who in Texas"

Commissioned by St. Helen's Catholic Church for 8 foot St. Francis sculpture

Sculpture in permanent collection of Texas Fine Arts Association.

First Prize, Sculpture, Texas Tourist Development Agency.

Second Prize, Sculpture, Four-State Sculpture Exhibition.

Featured on cover of "Third Dimension" Sculpture magazine, April 74 issue.

9 foot carrara marble sculpture, State Health Dept. Bldg., Homburg, Ger.

## AFFILIATIONS

International Sculpture Society (Associazione Artistica Apuana)

Southern Association of Sculptors

Texas Society of Sculptors

Texas Fine Arts Association

Artists Equity Association National

Artists Equity Association of N.Y.C.

## STUDIED

Norfolk School of Art under Lindsey Ocheltree

Southwestern University under Robert Lancaster

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February 8, 1976

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
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Dear Sir:

My family and I wish to express our appreciation to
you for making the effort to visit Laramie on February
4. We enjoyed your address, and while we were sobered by
the difficulties facing the United States in world
affairs, I think we were also encouraged that efforts
are constantly being made to find solutions to the
problems. I think you deserve a vote of thanks from
everyone for your tireless efforts in this direction.

I would like to make one comment on your address. I
am extremely concerned about recent efforts of the
Congress to expose the activities of the CIA and the
FBI. I certainly don't want those organizations to
abuse their authority, but by the same token I don't
feel that they can be effective if they have to operate
in the fishbowl that many in Congress seem to want to
put them in. I hope that you and others concerned about
this trend can do something to stem the tide.

CHUGHTAI ACADEMY OF ARTS

An association for the preservation and promotion of the Art of Chughtai

Arif Rahman Chughtai,
c/o, Chughtai Museum Trust,
4 Garden Town, Lahore,
PAKISTAN.

Residence: 281 Ravi road, Near Pir Makki, Lahore-2.

Filed at B/58

Dated 15th February, 1976.

To:
The Secretary of State,
Dr Henry Kissinger,
US State Department,
United States of America.

My dear Dr Kissinger:

In the past I have had the pleasure of presenting you with two books of mine, but that was before 17th January, 1975, when my beloved father and Pakistan's national artist M.A. Rahman Chughtai, breathed his last breath. His death brought in condolences from all over the world. Among such a list were Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, President Walter Scheel, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Vice-President Nelson A. Rockefeller, Dr Kurt Waldheim and Amadou Mahtar Mbow. The U.S. State Department also sent its message on the occasion.

Ever since that day I have been busy with a ruthless dedication to actuate and fulfill all of my father's aspirations, which mainly were concerned with the preservation and promotion of the Art of Chughtai. Successful at counts, failing at others. But then success is merely a pursuit, a feeling which comes only through the realization of having put in all of one's work and dreams. The duality of the feeling is something which you can understand, because your life too has been a pursuit of a similar dream.

The Prime Minister of Pakistan is a great lover of art and a very old admirer of the Art of Chughtai. He has visited our studios many time and collected originals from us. He is responsible for wide publicity to Amal-Chughtai, an illustration of the ideology of Pakistan by the late artist. This book was presented to all Islamic Head of States at the Islamic Summit in Lahore. It is already with many other Western leaders. Only your name needed consideration.

A special emmissary of the Prime Minister called upon us recently, and as he proceeds on a visit abroad, we were asked to send these books to various personalities which he will be meeting. His meeting with you will be short, but not short enough, not to give us a chance to present a copy of the book to you. Enlightening study!

May it help you to challenge and conquer more of the problems of your life!

You do while I look the other way

2:30pm

Bangkok,
Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Chatchai Chumawan,
His Excellency

Henry A. Klaasen

Warm regards,

and personal association.
be a prized remembrance of both our professional
of your kind inscription, and you can be sure it will
meeting in New York. I am particularly appreciative
of a most thoughtful memento of our recent
Thank you very much for the splendid silver

Dear Mr. Minister:

November 3, 1975

Dear Mr. Minister:

I was most appreciative of your thoughtful moment of our recent meeting in New York. I was particularly touched by the warm words you had inscribed on that beautiful silver tray and it will become a prized remembrance of our professional and personal association. I look forward to renewing that association when we meet again later this month.

Sincerely yours

Inside address:

United States Senate

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510

October 31, 1975

The Honorable Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D. C. 20520

Dear Henry:

I appreciated my abbreviated luncheon as your guest. Bethine, who was able to stay for the entire program, equally sends her thanks.

I was glad to make your comments on my power in seniority as a United States Senator come true with the postponement of the vote -- an "entire" 15 minutes! Ah, such is life in the Senate.