Ammi Phillips (1788 - 1865) - photo 1

Ammi Phillips

Ammi Phillips was a prolific American itinerant portrait painter active from the mid 1810s to the early 1860s in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. His artwork is identified as folk art, primitive art, provincial art, and itinerant art without consensus among scholars, pointing to the enigmatic nature of his work and life. He is attributed to over eight hundred paintings, although only eleven are signed. While his paintings are formulaic in nature, Phillips paintings were under constant construction, evolving as he added or discarded what he found successful, while taking care to add personal details that spoke to the identity of those who hired him. He is most famous for his portraits of children in red, although children only account for ten percent of his entire body of work. The most well known of this series, Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog, would be sold for one million dollars, a first for folk art. His paintings hung mostly unidentified, spare for some recognition in the collections like those of Edward Duff Balken, for decades until his oeuvre was reconstructed by Barbara Holdridge and Larry Holdridge, collectors and students of American folk art, with the support of the art historian Mary Black. Ammi Phillip's body of work was expanded upon their discovery that the mysterious paintings of a "Kent Limner" and "Border Limner" were indeed his.

Wikipedia

Date and place of birt:24 april 1788, Colebrook, USA
Date and place of death:11 july 1865, Curtisville, USA
Nationality:USA
Period of activity: XIX century
Specialization:Artist, Painter, Portraitist
Genre:Portrait
Art style:Primitivism, Realism, Folk Art
Technique:Oil, Oil on canvas

Creators USA

Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926)
Mary Cassatt
1844 - 1926
Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812 - 1902)
Charles Lewis Tiffany
1812 - 1902
Matthew Ritchie (1964)
Matthew Ritchie
1964
Richard Walter Bock (1865 - 1949)
Richard Walter Bock
1865 - 1949
Maynard Dixon (1875 - 1946)
Maynard Dixon
1875 - 1946
Grete Rikko (1908 - 1998)
Grete Rikko
1908 - 1998
Mona Kuhn (1969)
Mona Kuhn
1969
David Hockney (1937)
David Hockney
1937
Kay Rasmus Nielsen (1886 - 1957)
Kay Rasmus Nielsen
1886 - 1957
Louise Fishman (1939 - 2021)
Louise Fishman
1939 - 2021
Carlos Almaraz (1941 - 1989)
Carlos Almaraz
1941 - 1989
Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965)
Dorothea Lange
1895 - 1965
Raymond Pettibon (1957)
Raymond Pettibon
1957
John De Andrea (1941)
John De Andrea
1941
Josef Scharl (1896 - 1954)
Josef Scharl
1896 - 1954
Paul Howard Manship (1885 - 1966)
Paul Howard Manship
1885 - 1966

Creators Folk Art

Hermann Gemmel (1813 - 1868)
Hermann Gemmel
1813 - 1868
Jacques Calonne (1930 - 2022)
Jacques Calonne
1930 - 2022
Émile Maillard (1846 - 1926)
Émile Maillard
1846 - 1926
Anatoly Andreevich Bichukov (1934 - 2020)
Anatoly Andreevich Bichukov
1934 - 2020
Karl Bodmer (1809 - 1893)
Karl Bodmer
1809 - 1893
Vasilii Trofimovich Bogoliubov (1912 - 1998)
Vasilii Trofimovich Bogoliubov
1912 - 1998
Johannes Holst (1880 - 1965)
Johannes Holst
1880 - 1965
Robert Winchester Fraser (1848 - 1906)
Robert Winchester Fraser
1848 - 1906
Anak Agung Gde Sobrat (1911 - 1992)
Anak Agung Gde Sobrat
1911 - 1992
Fridolin Becker (1830 - 1895)
Fridolin Becker
1830 - 1895
Christian Ernst Bernhard Morgenstern (1805 - 1867)
Christian Ernst Bernhard Morgenstern
1805 - 1867
Daniel Berger (1744 - 1825)
Daniel Berger
1744 - 1825
Everett Shinn (1876 - 1953)
Everett Shinn
1876 - 1953
Mari Biasini (1866 - 1937)
Mari Biasini
1866 - 1937
Gerhard Brandes (1923 - 2013)
Gerhard Brandes
1923 - 2013
Laura Craig McNellis (1957)
Laura Craig McNellis
1957
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