TitleThe Sick Cat
Artist
Hugo Ballin
(American, 1879 - 1956)
Date1939
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 40 × 30 1/8 in.
Framed: 44 × 34 × 2 in.
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, May 8, 1940
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number52-P
Label TextBallin submitted several religious subjects to Academy annuals in the 1940s. It was his Deposition that received the Clarke Prize in 1940, and in 1949 he showed Sister Rebecca Cleadon, the subject of which was an elderly nun who closely resembles the figure in The Sick Cat. Ballin was working on a mural for a Catholic church in California at the time of his death.During the summer of 1940, Ballin wrote Charles Curran, corresponding secretary of the Academy asking that The Sick Cat be included in an exhibition then projected for the New York World's Fair. There is no record whether this informal exhibition ever took place.
