Artist Polly Kraft Dies at 89

Polly Kraft, a painter whose still lifes and landscapes graced the Corcoran and Addison/Ripley galleries as well as the Jackson Art Center, died of cancer Jan. 1 at her Georgetown home. She was 89. Born Rhoda Norton Winton in Spokane, Washington, Kraft was also known as a Georgetown hostess for a time; she was married to columnist Joe Kraft, who died in 1986, and then to Lloyd Cutler, Carter and Clinton White House counsel, who died in 2005. While she knew the city’s movers and shakers, she loved the artist’s life best. Her first marriage, to Whitney Stevens, produced sons Mark and David Stevens. She is also survived by a brother and four grandchildren.