Caroline "Catherine" Weldon's journey was recently made into a motion picture, "Woman Walks Ahead," which will premiere Friday, July 27, at the Grand Theatres, Bismarck.

In ‘Woman Walks Ahead,’ Jessica Chastain plays real-life figure Catherine Weldon, who befriended the Native American chief. Published: June 25, 2018 at 10:37 a.m. ET. Share.

In Woman Walks Ahead, a New York City activist and artist named Catherine Weldon (played by Jessica Chastain) travels across the United States to paint the great Native American chief Sitting Bull.

A24 and DirecTV have acquired U.S. rights to the Jessica Chastain period drama Woman Walks Ahead.. Directed by Susanna White, the film centers on Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s ...

In "Woman Walks Ahead," Jessica Chastain plays Catherine Weldon, a painter from New York City who travels to North Dakota to paint the legendary Lakota leader Sitting Bull. Her trip turns overtly ...

She found Weldon had been born in Switzerland in 1838 as Caroline/Catherine Schlotter, arriving in America in 1871, and married Richard Weldon, having one son, Christopher, born in 1878.

A24 and DIRECTV have taken U.S. rights to Susana White's Woman Walks Ahead about widowed artist Catherine Weldon who travelled to North Dakota in the 1880s to paint Chief Sitting Bull.

In Susanna White’s appealing but somewhat flat western, the daring and happily widowed late nineteenth-century artist Catherine Weldon (also known as Caroline W ...