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

Craig Kauffman (1932 - 2010)
Craig Kauffman
1932 - 2010
Lawrence Carroll (1954 - 2019)
Lawrence Carroll
1954 - 2019
Granville Redmond (1871 - 1935)
Granville Redmond
1871 - 1935
Eva Hesse (1936 - 1970)
Eva Hesse
1936 - 1970
William Victor Higgins (1884 - 1949)
William Victor Higgins
1884 - 1949
Yury Ivanovich Dyshlenko (1936 - 1995)
Yury Ivanovich Dyshlenko
1936 - 1995
Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847 - 1928)
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
1847 - 1928
Ernie Barnes (1938 - 2009)
Ernie Barnes
1938 - 2009
Lee Quiñones (1960)
Lee Quiñones
1960
Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944)
Piet Mondrian
1872 - 1944
John Frederick Peto (1854 - 1907)
John Frederick Peto
1854 - 1907
Adolf Arthur Dehn (1895 - 1968)
Adolf Arthur Dehn
1895 - 1968
Tom Levine (1945 - 2020)
Tom Levine
1945 - 2020
Anna Park (1996)
Anna Park
1996
Frederick Vezin (1859 - 1933)
Frederick Vezin
1859 - 1933
Thomas Satterwhite Noble (1835 - 1907)
Thomas Satterwhite Noble
1835 - 1907

Creators Folk Art

George Richmond (1809 - 1896)
George Richmond
1809 - 1896
William Raymond Dommersen (1859 - 1927)
William Raymond Dommersen
1859 - 1927
Auguste Prévot-Valéri (1857 - 1930)
Auguste Prévot-Valéri
1857 - 1930
Franz Kamlander (1920 - 1999)
Franz Kamlander
1920 - 1999
Robert Winchester Fraser (1848 - 1906)
Robert Winchester Fraser
1848 - 1906
Fridolin Becker (1830 - 1895)
Fridolin Becker
1830 - 1895
Ivan Albertovich Puni (1894 - 1956)
Ivan Albertovich Puni
1894 - 1956
Theodore Valerio (1819 - 1879)
Theodore Valerio
1819 - 1879
Adolf Schill (1848 - 1911)
Adolf Schill
1848 - 1911
William Nicholson (1872 - 1949)
William Nicholson
1872 - 1949
Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
Giacomo Puccini
1858 - 1924
Deodato Guinaccia (1510 - 1585)
Deodato Guinaccia
1510 - 1585
Rudolphina Swanida Wildrik (1807 - 1883)
Rudolphina Swanida Wildrik
1807 - 1883
Jacques Alfred Brielman (1834 - 1892)
Jacques Alfred Brielman
1834 - 1892
Karl Pavlovich Bryullov (1799 - 1852)
Karl Pavlovich Bryullov
1799 - 1852
Léon-Pierre Delambre (1846 - 1916)
Léon-Pierre Delambre
1846 - 1916
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