Jen Waller (right), Director of the Cutrer Mansion, and Eva Connell (left), who serves on the Cutrer Mansion's Community Advisory Board, welcomed home the portrait of Mr. J.W. Cutrer, Husband of Mrs. Blanche Clark Cutrer and son-in-law to Clarksdale founder John Clark. The early-20th century oil painting, with an artist signature of “Mark," was painted by celebrated New York artist Lajos Mark around 1913. The 41” x 55” oil painting arrived via freight from California at the Cutrer Mansion on Wednesday afternoon. The painting, which is the companion portrait to the painting of Mrs. Blanche Clark Cutrer that currently hangs in the Cutrer Mansion, is on loan by Cutrer descendant, Oscar Smith. Smith is the great-grandson of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Cutrer, the grandson of General Edward Smith and his wife Blanche Cutrer Smith, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith.
