Stanton L. Catlin; Expert on Modern Mexican Muralists

Stanton L. Catlin, 82, expert on modern Mexican muralists. Educated at Oberlin College and the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, Catlin worked at the Minneapolis Art Institute, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of the Americas Society in New York City and at Syracuse University. He made his first study trip to Mexico in 1939 and soon met artists Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Jose Clemente Orozco. In recent years, Catlin had worked with the National Autonomous University of Mexico to document the history of mural painting in that country. Specifically, he documented the locations of 150 Mexican murals in the United States. He also helped organize Latin American art exhibits at Yale and the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 1964, Catlin shared a Grammy Award for writing material about murals to accompany a Columbia Records recording of Mexican music. On Nov. 26 in Fayetteville, N.Y.