Noah Saterstrom Portfolio Box

What Became of Dr. Smith, Gouache Suite, 2020, $3000

“What Became of Dr. Smith” is an ongoing series of paintings about my great grandfather, an itinerant optometrist in Mississippi, whose mental illness and subsequent disappearance caused him to be erased from the family story.  The text and marginalia on these gouache paintings are taken directly from Dr. Smith’s advertisements, and his daughter’s (my grandmother) school journals around the time of his disappearance in 1925.

Suite comes in handmade engraved clamshell box. Each piece is matted at 12x16 inches.