Sister Cassiana Marie

Cassiana Marie Vogt (1883 – June 21, 1944), born Martha Vogt and best known as Sister Cassiana Marie, was a Catholic nun and oil painter who was a member of the Ste. Genevieve Art Colony.

Biography Martha Vogt, known affectionately as Mattie, was born in 1883 in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. She joined the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet at age 19, changing her name to Sister Cassiana Marie Vogt and taking her final vows as a nun in 1910.

Sister Cassiana Marie was active as an oil painter. She "discreetly" taught and painted there for multiple summers in the 1930s.

Sister Cassiana Marie has been described as "an intensely serious artist" who viewed art as opening one's eyes to a natural world where "beauty was supreme to dogma." Her work was in a more classical style than some of her peers at the Ste. Genevieve Art Colony. She also taught for a period at Rosati-Kain High School in St. Louis. Her work has been exhibited there, including in a 1999 solo show titled "Heavenly Guidance," and at other institutions across the Midwest in the decades since.