Catalogue Entry

Likely Spencer and Katrina Trask, c. 1887 (by commission)

The Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York

National Academy of Design, New York, Loan Exhibition of Portraits for the Benefit of St. John's Guild and the Orthopaedic Hospital, October 13–December 7, 1895. (NAD 1895), no. 175, as Mrs. Spencer Trask, lent by Spencer Trask, Esq.

Loan Exhibition of Portraits for the Benefit of St. John's Guild and the Orthopaedic Hospital. New York: National Academy of Design, 1895. Exhibition catalogue (1895 NAD), p. 33, no. 175, as Mrs. Spencer Trask, lent by Spencer Trask, Esq.

"Portraits by the Score: Second Annual Loan Exhibition Opens this Afternoon. List of Some of the More Notable Ones to be Shown at the National Academy for the Benefit of St. John's Guild and the Orthopedic Hospital." New-York Daily Tribune (New York), October 30, 1895, "Conspicuous in the East Room…are also the full-length portrait of Mrs. Spencer Trask, by Eastman Johnson, Mrs. Daniel Chauncey, by Benjamin Constant, Miss Helen Dunham, by Sargent, and Mrs. Frank Lawrence [sic] and Lady Vernon, by Eastman Johnson".

Sigrist, Paul Eugene, Jr. The Yaddo Collection. [Saratoga Springs, NY]: [publisher unknown], 1985.

McGee, Micki, ed. Yaddo: Making American Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008, p. 123.