About Ezra Wood

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Puffy Sleeve Artist
  • Biography

    In a ground breaking article "Unmistaken Identity," published in Magazine Antiques, July/August 2014, Michael R Payne, Suzanne Rudnick Payne and Samuel Herrup argue that the actual identity of the early 19th-century American folk portraitist nicknamed 'The Puffy Sleeve Silhouette Artist' was Ezra Wood of Buckland, Massachusetts. Wood was born in 1798 and likely learned the art of making silhouettes from his father-in-law, the silhouette artist Josiah Fuller.

    American folk silhouette is attributed to the Puffy Sleeve Artist. This artist left behind a wonderful legacy of unique naïve silhouettes with hollow cut heads atop watercolor bodies. The profiles are all three-quarter length with women always facing right and men...

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