"Chatterton must be reckoned among the indigenous -- and important --
American painters. Unlike many artists to whom the subject is merely
an excuse for technical exercise or esthetic experiment, Mr. Chatterton
sees the white houses, the tall elms and dusty streets of New England
towns as the important things in a picture ... this sentiment of place is supported by a strong, forthright technique."
-- The New York Times
"Mr. Chatterton's point of view is characterized by certain serene
enjoyment of actualities that amounts almost to a philosophy of life.
His pictures of New England villages and streets, of meadows and
trees and white meeting houses induce something of the same reaction
that one gets from reading Thoreau and Emerson."
-- The New York American
"Mr. Chatterton finds in the winding roads and thickly sown houses
of these old New England towns stimulating material for vigorous
design -- big masses of thrusting houses integrated with the curves
and rounding surfaces of natural forms in harmonious effect ... Mr.
Chatterton's work establishes him as a serious painter whose powers of observations are remarkably seconded by a thorough penetration of
the character of the things he paints."
-- The New York Evening Post
"The problem of light has always been of prime importance to
Chatterton. He has begun to accentuate the poetry of light,
unifying its various elements into a mellow whole ... For my
own part ... Chatterton may be counted among the five leading realists of the day, three of the others being Charles Burchfield,
Edward Hopper and Rockwell Kent."
-- Malcolm Vaughan in The New York America