ID 1122254
Lot 442 | AMMI PHILLIPS (1788-1865)
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 300 000
MRS. RUTH (HAYNES) PALMER
oil on canvas
36 x 30 in.
Painted circa 1818
Provenance
Mrs. Ruth (Haynes) Palmer (1797-1873), Hoosick, New York, the sitter
By descent in the family to the great-great-granddaughter of the above, according to inscription on frame
Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut
Sotheby's, New York, 26 October 1985, lot 64
Literature
Bongartz, “The Soul of a Nation,”Americana Magazine (April 1980), vol. VIII, p. 51, no. 1 (as referenced in Allaway).
"Tillou Collection at Sotheby's," Antiques & The Arts Weekly (November 1, 1985), p. 111.
Lita Solis-Cohen, "The Tillou Sale," Maine Antique Digest (December 1985), p. 22-A.
Brownstein and Terkowitz, “Ammi Phillips’s Women in White: A Brilliant Formula,” The Magazine Antiques (November 2007), p. 150, fig. 1.
David R. Allaway, My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips (2022), vol. I, p. 144, no. 365., vol. II, p. 27, no. 58.
Exhibited
Storrs, Connecticut, The William Benton Museum, Summer 1979 (as referenced in Allaway).
New Haven, Connecticut, The Yale University Art Gallery, Folk Painting Seminar, Summer 1982 (as referenced in Allaway).
| Artist: | Ammi Phillips (1788 - 1865) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Folk Art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Ammi Phillips (1788 - 1865) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Folk Art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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