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This is part 5 of a 21-part post on American Folk Art:
Scrimshaw is the name given to scrollwork,
engravings, and carvings done in bone or ivory. Typically it refers to the
handiwork created by whalers made from
the byproducts of harvesting marine mammals.
It is most commonly made out of the bones and teeth of sperm
whales, the baleen of other whales, and the tusks of walruses.
The practice survives as a hobby and as a trade for commercial artisans.  |
| 1775 Scrimshaw Map of Boston on Revolutionary War Powder Horn 40.6 x 9.5 cm |
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| 1800c Scrimshaw Horn Beaker 7.6 x 5.1 cm |
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| 1800s Walking Stick. American Sailor's Scrimshaw Walrus Tusk Head Mounted on a Narwhal Tusk 85.5 cm long |
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| 1820s Sperm Whale Tooth made on the American whaling ship "Harriet" (front) |
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| 1820s Sperm Whale Tooth made on the American whaling ship "Harriet" (back) |
Frederick Myrick was one of Nantucket's most famous scrimshaw artists, and the first to sign his work. Born in 1805, Myrick went on at least three whaling voyages. He carved what may be the most famous whaling scrimshaw that depict American whaling. "Susan's Teeth" is a series of 22 scrimshaw creations that depict whalers off the coast of Japan and Peru in 1829.
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| 1828-29 Scrimshaw Whale's Tooth "The Susan Whaling on the coast of Japan" |
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| 1828-29 Scrimshaw whale's tooth showing "The Frances of New Bedford" by Frederick Myrick |
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| 1828-29 Scrimshaw whale's tooth showing "The Frances of New Bedford" by Frederick Myrick |
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| 1828-29 Scrimshaw whale's tooth showing "The Frances of New Bedford" by Frederick Myrick |
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| 1828-29 Scrimshaw whale's tooth by Frederick Myrick on the whaleship "Susan" |
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| 1829 (August 28th) Scrimshaw whale's tooth by Frederick Myrick on the Whaleship "Susan." "Engraved by Fred Myrick on board of the Ship Susan August the 28th 1829." |
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| 1829 (August 28th) Scrimshaw whale's tooth by Frederick Myrick on the Whaleship "Susan." Reverse inscription reads "The Susan on the coast of Japan whaling." |
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| 1829 (February 8th) Scrimshaw whale's tooth by Frederick Myrick on the Whaleship "Susan." The banner reads "The ship Susan of Nantucket" |
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| 1929 (August 28th) Scrimshaw whale's tooth inscribed "Engraved by Fred Myrick on board of the Ship Susan August the 28th 1829." |
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| 1830-70c Whale's tooth scrimshaw with Abalone shell inlay |
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| 1830-70c Reverse of whale's tooth scrimshaw with Abalone shell inlay |
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| 1840 Whalebone scrimshaw 27.9 cm long |
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| 1850-90 Whale's tooth scrimshaw Portland Museum of Art, Maine |
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| after 1865 Scrimshaw Tortoise shell |
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| n.d. Whalebone Scrimshaw |
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| Whale's tooth Scrimshaw featuring the American flag and eagle |
Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822)
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| Charles Peale Polk Self-Portrait
Charles Peale Polk was born in Annapolis,
Maryland in 1767. Orphaned at a young age, he was sent to Philadelphia to live
with his uncle and study art. By the time he was in his twenties, Polk was
advertising himself as a portrait artist in Baltimore newspapers. Being
unsuccessful, he returned to Philadelphia after a couple of years and advertised
his services as a house and sign painter.
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He continued his artistic pursuits and by
1800 he had opened exhibitions in Baltimore. In 1800 he held government office
in Washington, DC, at the National Gallery of Art.
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| 1787-90c Portrait of Mrs. Jacob Ten Broeck and Daughter oil on canvas 82.1 x 99.7 cm |
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| 1790c George Washington oil on canvas 55.2 x 45.4 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
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| 1793 George Washington oil on canvas 75.6 x 58.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1790c Washington before Nassau Hall oil on canvas 92.1 x 72.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1793 George Washington oil on canvas 76.2 x 58.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1791-76c Mrs. Thomas Kell nee Aliceanna Bond oil on canvas 95.9 x 81 cm Private Collection |
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| 1791-96c Captain Thomas Kell oil on canvas 95.9 x 81 cm Private Collection |
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| 1792 Mrs. Elijah Etting oil on canvas 90.5 x 70.2 cm Baltimore Museum of Art, MD |
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| 1793 Emily Smiley Snowden oil on canvas 90.5 x 78.4 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
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| 1797 Mrs. Cornelius Baldwin (Mary Briscoe) watercolour on ivory 6.5 x 5.4 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
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| 1799 Eleanor Conway Hite and Son, James Madison Hite oil on canvas 152.4 x 101.6 cm Belle Grove Plantation, Middletown, VA |
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| 1799 Isaac Hite oil on canvas 152.4 x 101.6 cm Belle Grove Plantation, Middletown, VA |
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| 1799-1820 Thomas Jefferson oil on canvas 69.2 x 61 cm Private Collection |
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| Portrait of a Young Lady oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm |
Rufus Hathaway (1770-1822)
Rufus Hathaway was an American physician
and folk art painter.
He lived in southern Massachusetts, where he painted numerous portraits between 1790 and 1795. He
later studied medicine and established himself as a doctor at Duxbury.
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1790 Lady with Her Pets (Molly Wales Forbes)
oil on canvas 86.6 x 81.3 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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| 1791 Captain Pollycarpus Edson oil on canvas mounted on panel 63.5 x 77.5 cm |
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| 1791 Mrs. Pollycarpus Edson oil on canvas mounted on panel 63.5 x 77.5 cm |
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| 1793-95 A View of Mr. Joshua Winsor's House & c. oil on canvas 71.1 x 81.8 cm Folk Art Museum, New York City |
John Brewster Jr. (1766-1854)
John Brewster Jr. was a prolific, deaf
itinerant painter who produced many charming portraits of well-off New England
families, especially their children. He lived much of the latter half of his
life in Buxton, Maine, SA,
recording the faces of much of Maine's elite society of his time.
Being deaf from birth, and growing up in a time when
no standardised sign language for the deaf existed, young Brewster probably
interacted with few people outside of the circle of his family and friends,
with whom he would have learned to communicate. A kindly minister taught him to
paint, and by the 1790s he was travelling through Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts
and eastern New York State, taking advantage of his family connections to offer
his services to the wealthy merchant class.
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| 1799 Comfort Starr Mygatt and His Daughter Lucy oil on canvas 137.2 x 99.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1799 Lucy Knapp Mygatt and Her Son George oil on canvas 137.2 x 101.6 cm Palmer Museum of Art, State College, PA |
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| 1800c Betsey Avery Brewster oil on canvas 78.1 x 55.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1800c Child with Strawberries oil on canvas 94.2 x 63.8 |
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| 1801 Elizabeth Stone Coffin, Massachusetts |
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| 1801 Major Stone Coffin, Massachusetts |
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| 1805 Francis O. Watts with Bird oil on canvas 89.5 x 68.6 cm Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY |
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| 1807 One Shoe Off oil on canvas 88.6 x 63.2 cm Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY |
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| 1810c John Cox of Bridgeton, Maine oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1810c Little Girl |
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| 1820-35c (attributed to) Portrait of a Young Woman oil on canvas |
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| 1820c John Colley oil on canvas 76.8 x 63.8 cm Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH |
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| 1820c Martha Colley oil on canvas 76.8 x 63.8 cm Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH |
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| n.d. Portrait of a Boy with a Book |
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| n.d. Portrait of a Youth with a Book |
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| n.d. William Fogg oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm Private Collection |
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