Jessica Chastain in "Woman Walks Ahead" Richard Foreman Jr. /© A24 /Courtesy Everett Collection The new film “Woman Walks Ahead” opens with a prim Jessica Chastain — in black Victorian ...

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. The role of Sitting ...

Woman Walks Ahead tells the incredible true story of New York portrait artist Catherine Weldon, who travels alone to the Wild West’s Dakota territory to paint the great Chief Sitting Bull.

The Oscar-nominated actress plays real-life artist Catherine Weldon in the period drama ... to paint a picture of Native American leader Sitting Bull (Michael Greyeyes). Her arrival and ...

Weldon’s given name was Caroline ... That much, at least, appears to be true to reality: Catherine never becomes Sitting Bull’s lover, but she does become his confidante, a passionate supporte ...

As in Eileen Pollack’s 2002 book, “Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull,” director White seems to identify personally with the challenge that a white woman ...

The film is based on a true story about the friendship between the Hunkpapa Lakota leader and Catherine Weldon, a widowed artist who traveled to North Dakota on a quest to paint Sitting Bull.