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

Timur Si-Qin (1984)
Timur Si-Qin
1984
John Miller (1954)
John Miller
1954
Alex Grey (1953)
Alex Grey
1953
Reginald Marsh (1898 - 1954)
Reginald Marsh
1898 - 1954
James Edward Buttersworth (1817 - 1894)
James Edward Buttersworth
1817 - 1894
Marguerite Yourcenar (1903 - 1987)
Marguerite Yourcenar
1903 - 1987
Peter Voulkos (1924 - 2002)
Peter Voulkos
1924 - 2002
Cady Noland (1956)
Cady Noland
1956
Robert Gober (1954)
Robert Gober
1954
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894 - 1961)
Samuel Dashiell Hammett
1894 - 1961
Matthew Ritchie (1964)
Matthew Ritchie
1964
Wafaa Bilal (1966)
Wafaa Bilal
1966
Y. Z. Kami (1956)
Y. Z. Kami
1956
Noel Rockmore (Montgomery) (1928 - 1995)
Noel Rockmore (Montgomery)
1928 - 1995
Rimma Anatol'evna Gerlovina (1951)
Rimma Anatol'evna Gerlovina
1951
Andrew Michael Dasburg (1887 - 1979)
Andrew Michael Dasburg
1887 - 1979

Creators Folk Art

Janko Anastasov (1892 - 1958)
Janko Anastasov
1892 - 1958
Ivan Rabuzin (1921 - 2008)
Ivan Rabuzin
1921 - 2008
Karl Kronberger (1841 - 1921)
Karl Kronberger
1841 - 1921
Rostislav Ivanovich Vovkushevsky (1917 - 2000)
Rostislav Ivanovich Vovkushevsky
1917 - 2000
Vladimir Fyodorovich Stozharov (1926 - 1973)
Vladimir Fyodorovich Stozharov
1926 - 1973
Leonardo Roda (1868 - 1933)
Leonardo Roda
1868 - 1933
Charles Burton Barber (1845 - 1894)
Charles Burton Barber
1845 - 1894
Bert Geer Phillips (1868 - 1956)
Bert Geer Phillips
1868 - 1956
Raja Ravi Varma (1848 - 1906)
Raja Ravi Varma
1848 - 1906
Charles Malfroy (1862 - 1939)
Charles Malfroy
1862 - 1939
Rembrandt Bugatti (1884 - 1916)
Rembrandt Bugatti
1884 - 1916
Florent Mols (1811 - 1896)
Florent Mols
1811 - 1896
Yevgeny Ivanovich Stolitsa (1870 - 1929)
Yevgeny Ivanovich Stolitsa
1870 - 1929
Alexandre Defaux (1826 - 1900)
Alexandre Defaux
1826 - 1900
Annette Messager (1943)
Annette Messager
1943
Clementine Hunter (1887 - 1988)
Clementine Hunter
1887 - 1988