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This is part 21 of a 21-part post on American Folk Art:
In this final part of the series I'm featuring a number of artists where I could only find a few examples of their work - all in single figures and some with only one example, but a fitting cross-section with which to end the series.
Mary B. Tucker (1784 - 1853)
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| 1840-44c Learning the ABCs graphite and watercolour on paper 23.5 x 58.4 cm Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1840-50c Girl in Calico watercolour, brush and brown ink, and graphite on cream wove paper 61.3 x 48 cm Princeton University Art Museum, NJ |
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| 1840c ( attributed to ) Two Children in Blue watercolour and graphite on paper |
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| 1843 Portrait of a Boy Holding an Orange watercolour and pencil on paper 55.9 x 46.3 cm |
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| n.d. Portrait of a Young Boy in a Blue Coat watercolour and ink on paper 66 x 47.6 cm |
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| n.d. Portrait of a Young Girl watercolour and ink on paper 48.3 x 36.2 cm |
Samuel Miller (1807 - 1853)
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| 1840-50 ( attributed to ) Picking Flowers oil 114.3 x 71.1 cm |
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| 1840c Portrait of Cynthia Osborn |
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| 1850c Portrait of Phoebe Francis Ricker oil on canvas 89.5 x 72.4 cm |
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| 1850c Young Boy with a Dog oil on canvas de Young / Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| 1850c Young Girl with Flowers oil on canvas de Young / Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| 1852 Emily Moulton oil on canvas 103.5 x 70.2 cm Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH |
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| n.d. Girl Teasing a Cat |
William W. Kennedy (1818 - after 1870)
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| 1840-45c Portrait of a Young Woman oil on board 41.3 x 31.1 |
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| 1840c Little Girl with Her Black Cat oil on canvas 81.3 x 68.6 cm |
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| 1845 Captain David Worth aged 72 (1773-1855) oil on board 40.6 x 30.5 cm |
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| 1845 Portrait of a Young Lady 50.8 x 36.8 cm |
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| 1846 Portrait of a Woman Wearing a White Ruffled Bonnet oil on canvas 61 x 50.8 cm |
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| n.d. ( attributed to ) Portrait of a Child Wearing a Pink Dress and Holding a Hairbrush oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm |
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| n.d. ( attributed to ) Portrait of a Girl oil on canvas 70 x 56.2 cm |
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| n.d. ( attributed to ) Portrait of Child in Blue with a Cane oil on board |
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| n.d. Portrait of a Young Boy oil on canvas 50.2 x 40 cm |
Jacob Bailey Moore (1797 - 1853)
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| 1840 ( possibly by Jacob Bailey Moore ) Portrait of a Young Girl in a Red Dress o il on mattress ticking 62.2 x 48.3 cm |
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| 1845c Portrait of a Gentleman oil on canvas 68.7 x 56.2 cm |
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| 1845c Portrait of a Lady oil on canvas 68.7 x 56.2 cm |
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| 1847 Portrait of a Young Boy oil on canvas 105.4 x 87.6 cm |
Charles V. Bond ( 1825c - 1864c )
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| 1856 Still Life: Fruit, Bird, and Dwarf Pear Tree oil on canvas 63.5 x 76.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1860c Julie Tevis oil on canvas 88.9 x 71.1 cm Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KT |
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| 1860c Reverend John Tevis oil on canvas 88.9 x 71.1 cm Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KT |
Frederick Elmore Cohen (dates not found)
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| 1846c Near Old Post Office, Detroit oil on canvas mounted on board 50.2 x 60.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1850c Portrait of Two Children and Their Bloodhound 109.2 x 96.5 cm |
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| 1857c Bentley Simons Runyan Family of Mansfield, Ohio oil 96.5 x 114.3 cm Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio |
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| n.d. Self-Portrait 71.1 x 61 cm |
Lambert Sachs (1818 - 1903)
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| Lambert Sachs |
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| Self-Portrait |
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| 1850c Portrait of a Young Boy and Girl oil on canvas 124.5 x 101.6 cm |
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| 1857 The Herbert Children oil on canvas 63.3 x 80.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1887 Dark-Haired Girl Sitting in a Garden 40.6 x 33 cm |
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| n.d. George Washington in Prayer at Valley Forge |
Daniel McDowell (1809 - 1880)
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| 1860-80c Watermelon Wedges on a White Cloth oil on canvas 43.2 x 62.2 cm Private Collection |
Joe Miller, Linn Co., Oregon (dates not found)
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| 1870c Our Country Is Free! watercolour and gouache on paper 34.3 x 24.2 cm |
J.W. Bradshaw (active 1875c - 1900)
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| 1875-1900 Plains Indian oil on canvas 51 x 40 8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
W.H. Brown (active 1886 - 1887)
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| 1886 Bareback Riders oil on cardboard mounted on wood 47 x 62.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
Charles C. Hofmann (1820 - 1882) and
John Rasmussen (1828 - 1895)
Charles C. Hofmann was born in Germany around 1820, and
emigrated to America in 1860. In subsequent years he lived in several
communities along Pennsylvania's Schuylkill River, sometimes as a
resident/patient of the public poorhouses. He is the best-known of the three
so-called "Pennsylvania Almshouse Painters," the other two being
Louis Mader and John Rasmussen.
The Berks County institution in Reading was the one which
the artist entered with the greatest frequency; its records list his reason for
admittance as "intemperance." His stays there do not seem to have
been rehabilitative--one source reported that "it was his wont on visiting
days, to approach visitors and beg a few pennies to 'help put something in his
bottle' for which he will paint for you, a pretty picture." Most of
Hofmann's known works, however, were painted for staff members and officers of
the institutions depicted.
In addition to the almshouse views painted throughout the
1870s, Hofmann produced at least six other landscapes. In November 1881 Hofmann
was admitted to the Berks County Almshouse with a broken arm. He died there
five months later and was buried in the indigent's graveyard.
John Rasmussen was born in Germany in
1828 and arrived in America in 1865. He is listed as a painter and "fresco
painter" in the Reading, Pennsylvania, business directories during the
years 1867 to 1879. Widowed and suffering from chronic drinking problems and
rheumatism, Rasmussen was committed to the Berks County almshouse on June 5,
1879. He arrived roughly three years before the death of painter Charles
Hofman, a fellow inmate.
Possibly inspired by the attention
Hofmann had received for his painted landscapes and views of the institution,
or perhaps as a result of a comaraderie between the two painters, Rasmussen
produced almshouse views and other landscapes similar in composition to those
of the elder Hofmann during the period of their joint residency. Rasmussen is
known to have painted a wider range of subjects than did Hofmann, including
portraits, still lifes, various landscapes, baptismal certificates, and,
beginning in 1880, at least six views of the almshouse. In all of these,
Rasmussen closely followed Hofmann's 1878 composition of the institution, which
hung in one of the administrative buildings of the complex.
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| Charles C. Hofmann: Berks County Almshouse, 1878 oil on zinc 82.5 x 99.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| John Rasmussen 1880c: View of Buildings and Surroundings of the Berks County Alamshouse oil and gold paint on zinc panel 81.9 x 101.6 cm |
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| John Rasmussen 1881: Berks County Almshouse oil 66.9 x 116.8 cm Fenimore Art Museum |
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| John Rasmussen: Berks County Farm-scape oil on zinc-plated tin 66.9 x 89.8 cm |
