Monday, 14 November 2016

American Folk Art - part 10

Continuing a major series on American Folk Art featuring 21 postings. Folk Art encompasses art produced by artists and ordinary folk with little or no training in the arts, and is traditionally utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic. The period I’m covering is the C18th and C19th.
See parts 1-9 also for earlier works.

Note: Follow me on Twitter for notice of updates @poulwebb

This is part 10 of a 21-part post on American Folk Art:

Ammi Phillips (1788-1865)
For other works by Ammi Phillips and for biographical notes, see part 9 of the series.
This is part 2 of 3-part post on the works of Ammi Phillips:


1829 Jane Ann Benjamin Powers (Mrs. Charles Westley Powers)
oil on canvas
Dayton Art Institute, OH

1829 Portrait of Abigail Penoyer Reynolds
oil on canvas 78.4 x 63.2 cm
The San Diego Museum of Art, CA

1829 Portrait of George Greenwood Reynolds
oil on canvas 78.1 x 63.5 cm
The San Diego Museum of Art, CA

1829-38c Portrait of a Young Woman Seated on a Painted Chair
oil on canvas 88.9 x 78.7 cm

1829-39c Portrait of a Young Woman
oil on canvas 83.8 x 71.1 cm

1829c Portrait of Mary Margaret Deuel
( Dover Plais, Dutchess County, New York )
oil on canvas 75.6 x 60.3 cm

1830-35 Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog
oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm
American Folk Art Museum, New York City

1835c Girl in a Red Dress
oil on canvas 82.2 x 69.5 cm
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, IL


1830-35c (attributed to) Portrait of a Girl labelled "Caroline Dorr"
63.5 x 53.3 cm

1830-35c Elizabeth Hardenbergh DeWitt
oil on canvas 81.3 x 68.6 cm
"wife of William Cantine DeWitt (1796-1871), a physician with a thriving practice in Saugerties."

1830c Catherine A. May
oil on canvas 79 x 63.4 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1830c Portrait of a Gentleman with a Pamphlet Entitiled "Agriculture"
oil on canvas  78.7 x 66 cm

1830c Portrait of a Lady in a Lace Bonnet
oil on canvas 78.2 x 66 cm

1830c Portrait of Julia Barton Hunting
oil
The Henry Ford Collection

1832c Portrait of a Young Girl in a Pink Dress
oil on canvas 78.7 x 63.5 cm

1834c Old Woman with a BIble
oil on linen 85.1 x 71.1 cm
Memorial Ar Gallery, Rochester, NY

1835-40 Lady in a Gold-Coloured Dress
oil on canvas 85.1 x 71.7 cm
Folk Art Museum, New York City

1835-40 Mrs. Mayer and Daughter
oil on canvas 96.2 x 87 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

1835c (attributed to) Woman with Bonnet
oil on canvas 85.1 x 69.2 cm

1835c A Gentleman Holding a Book on Agriculture
oil on canvas 84.5 x 71.1 cm
Private Collection

1835c Girl with Dog and Strawberries

1835c Jane Storm Teller
oil on canvas 83.7 x 68.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1835c Portrait of a Man
oil on canvas 85.1 x 71.1 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

1835c Portrait of a Woman
oil on canvas 85.4 x 58.7 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

1835c Portrait of John Hughes of Hughesville
oil on canvas 81 x 69 cm

1835c Woman in Black Ruffled Dress
oil on canvas 81.3 x 68.6 cm
Crystal Bridges Art Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas

1836-40c Portrait of a Gentleman Seated in a Painted Chair Holding a Book
oil on canvas 92.7 x 80 cm

1836c Blond Boy with Primer, Peach, and Dog
oil on canvas 122.9 x 76.2 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

1836c Portrait of a Young Woman in a White Eyelet Bonnet
oil on canvas 107.9 x 92.8 cm

1837c Portrait of Mary Hoyt
oil on canvas 101.6 x 83.8 cm

1838c Jeannette Woolley, later Mrs. John Vincent Storm
oil on canvas 83.8 x 71 cm
Brooklyn Museum, NY

1838c John Younie Luyster
oil on canvas 116.8 x 77.5 cm
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

1840c Portrait of a Girl in a Red Dress
oil on canvas 91.4 x 77.5 cm

1840c Portrait of a Lady Wearing White Lace Cap and Collar
oil on canvas  73.7 x 64.8 cm

1841 Portrait of Jeanette Payne
oil on canvas 85.1 x 71.1 cm
Private Collection

1846-47c Pastoral Landscape
oil on panel 42.5 x 54 cm
Private Collection

1850c Maria Rachel Bronson (born in Torrington, Connecticut on April 26, 1819) and son Wilbur born in Winchester, Litchfield, Connecticut on June 9, 1848 (born in Winchester, Litchfield, Connecticut on June 9, 1848)
oil on canvas 88.9 x 89.5 cm

1850c Portrait of a Young Boy in Plaid with Dog
oil on canvas 96.5 x 67.3 cm

1855-57c Portrait of Asa Beckwith
oil on canvas 85.7 x 69.8 cm

1860 Three Children of Henry Joslen Carter
oil on canvas 73 x 95.2 cm
Folk Art Museum, New York City

1862-63 Portrait of Sarah King Dewey and her Daughter, Harriet
oil on canvas 86.4 x 69.9 cm

n.d Portrait of a Gentleman Holding a Book: Agriculture
oil on canvas 85.4 x 71.1 cm

n.d. (attributed to) Portrait of a Gentleman
oil on canvas 67.3 x 59.7 cm

Friday, 11 November 2016

American Folk Art - part 9

Continuing a major series on American Folk Art featuring 21 postings. Folk Art encompasses art produced by artists and ordinary folk with little or no training in the arts, and is traditionally utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic. The period I’m covering is the C18th and C19th.
See parts 1-8 also for earlier works.

Note: Follow me on Twitter for notice of updates @poulwebb

This is part 9 of a 21-part post on American Folk Art:

Ammi Phillips (1788-1865)


In 1924 a summer fair in Kent, Connecticut, sparked the rediscovery of a major American artist when local residents put several nineteenth-century “ancestor portraits” on display. The strikingly similar canvases depicted graceful women with long slender necks leaning slightly forward within gleaming dark backgrounds and firm men in dark suits, often holding newspapers or books in their hands. The artist, who was then unidentified, was given the appellation “Kent Limner.” It was not until 1965 that Barbara and Larry Holdridge, with the support of Mary C. Black, convincingly demonstrated that the Kent Limner portraits were linked to several other disparate bodies of work and that all, in fact, were painted by a single artist - Ammi Phillips, at different points in his career. For more than fifty years, Phillips—whose biblical name fittingly means “my people” portrayed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of his friends, relatives, and neighbours in New York as far north as Ticonderoga in the Adirondacks, south to Bedford, in Westchester County, and throughout the border areas of Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, and Connecticut.

Phillips was born in Colebrook, Connecticut, in 1788. He was already travelling as an artist by 1809, when he advertised from William Clarke’s tavern in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, that he would paint “correct likenesses.” This promise became a leitmotif of Phillips’s work over more than fifty years, from the early romantic portraits of Harriet Leavens and Harriet Campbell—who appear in the guise of fashion plates replete with Chinese silk parasols and reticules - to his last portraits of the 1860s.
From 1829-1838, Phillips (1788-1865) changed his style to what is now known as his Kent style. Phillips' paintings from 1829-1838 are in a new style, infinitely more languid and more highly stylised than any of the likenesses of 1820 to 1828 or the romantic visions of his Border period" 
(Barbara C. and Lawrence Holdridge, Ammi Phillips: Portrait Painter 1788-1865, 1968).

This is part 1 of 3-part post on the works of Ammi Phillips:

1811c Portrait of a Gentleman
oil on canvas 60.3 x 75.6 cm

1812-13 Portrait of Ashbel Stoddard
87.6 x 76.2 cm

1812-13 Portrait of Patricia Bolles Stoddard
 72.4 x 61 cm

1814c Girl with Cat
63.5 x 76.2 cm
Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas

1814c Henrietta Dorr
oil on canvas
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ

1815 Mr.Wilbur Sherman
oil on canvas 81.3 x 66 cm
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

1815 Mrs. Wilbur (Sarah 'Sally' Stearns) Sherman (1789-1845) and daughter Sarah (1814-1872)
oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

1815 Portrait of Harriet Campbell
oil on canvas 123.2 x 63.5 cm
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, PA
1815c Harriet Leavens
oil on canvas 144.8 x 71.1 cm
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

1815-18c Jerusha Rogers Washburn
oil on canvas 64.1 x 47.6 cm

1815c MaryAnn Gale
oil on canvas

1816 Alsa Slade
oil on canvas 102 x 83.8 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1816 Joseph Slade
oil on canvas 102 x 84 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1816c Portrait of Mr. Dilbee of Pine Plains
oil on canvas 97.8 x 80.6 cm

1817c Betsy Beckwith
oil on canvas 77.4 x 62.4 cm
Brooklyn Museum, NY

1817c Colonel Nathan Beckwith
oil on canvas 77.4 x 62,4 cm
Brooklyn Museum, NY

1818c Portrait of a Gentleman with a Snake Cane
oil on canvas 74.9 x 61 cm

1820c Derick Wyncoop and Anna Elting Wyncoop
oil on canvas 74 x 59 cm

1820c General David Robinson
oil on canvas
Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT

1820c Jane Daney Smith
oil on canvas 81.6 x 66 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1820c Nancy Caldwell Church Robinson
oil on canvas
Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT

1820c Portrait of Sally Morgan Walbridge
oil on canvas 82.5 x 66.7 cm
Private Collection

1820c Reverend Jonas Coe
oil on canvas 122.2 x 97.1 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1821 Portrait of Dr. John McClennan of Livingston, New York inscribed "John McClellan Aged 48 1821/ Painted by A. Phillips."
oil on canvas 77.5 x 62.2 cm

1821-22 Cornelius Allerton
oil on canvas 83.8 x 69.9 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1821-22 Mrs. Reuben Allerton (Lois Atherton)
oil on canvas 83.8 x 69.9 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1822 Portrait of Charlotte Newcombe Benedict
oil on canvas 75.6 x 58.7 cm
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio

1822 Portrait of Dr. Abijah Gilbert Benedict
oil on canvas 75.6 x 58.7 cm
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio

1824 Hannah Bull Thompson
oil on canvas 76.2 x 61 cm
The Huntingdon Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA

1825-30 Portrait of James Ketcham
oil on canvas 81.3 x 67.3 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

1825-30 Portrait of Lois Belding Ketcham
oil on canvas 81.3 x 67.3 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

1825c (possibly Ammi Phillips) Portrait of a Man
oil on canvas 58.4 x 71.1 cm.

1825c (possibly Ammi Phillips) Portrait of a Woman
oil on canvas 58.4 x 71.1 cm

1825c Portrait of a Man with Red Curtain
oil on canvas 74.9 x 59.7 cm

1825c Portrait of Cicero Hinds
oil on canvas 73.7 x 58.4 cm

1825c Portrait of Mr. Warburton of Rockboro, Virginia
oil on canvas 73.3 x 60.5 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

1825c Portrait of Mrs Warburton of Rockboro, Virginia
oil on canvas 75.7 x 60.6 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
 

1826c Woman Holding a Hymn Book
oil on canvas

1827 Mary Elizabeth Smith
oil on canvas 65.1 x 52.7 cm
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, IL

1830c The Strawberry Girl
oil on canvas 66.3 x 56.3 cm

1828 Portrait of a Young Girl
oil on canvas 61 x 50.2 cm

1828-38 Portrait of Ann Miller Tompkins