Ammi Phillips was born in Colebrook, Connecticut and began painting portraits of western Massachusetts subjects in about 1811. In 1813 he married Laura Brockway of Schodack, New York, and briefly... Read full biography
Ammi Phillips was born in Colebrook, Connecticut and began painting portraits of western Massachusetts subjects in about 1811. In 1813 he married Laura Brockway of Schodack, New York, and briefly lived in Troy before settling in Rhinebeck, in Dutchess County. While there, Phillips painted... Read full biography
Ammi Phillips was born in Colebrook, Connecticut and began painting portraits of western Massachusetts subjects in about 1811. In 1813 he married Laura Brockway of Schodack, New York, and briefly lived in Troy before settling in Rhinebeck, in Dutchess County. While there, Phillips painted likenesses on both sides of the New York/New England border. These "Border Period'' portraits, executed in pastel shades from 1812 through 1819, feature sitters with gangly arms, glancing sideways. In the... Read full biography
Ammi Phillips was born in Colebrook, Connecticut and began painting portraits of western Massachusetts subjects in about 1811. In 1813 he married Laura Brockway of Schodack, New York, and briefly lived in Troy before settling in Rhinebeck, in Dutchess County. While there, Phillips painted likenesses on both sides of the New York/New England border. These "Border Period'' portraits, executed in pastel shades from 1812 through 1819, feature sitters with gangly arms, glancing sideways. In the 1820s, Phillips experimented with dark and light color contrasts in his portraits of Dutchess, Orange, and Columbia County residents. After his first wife's death, Phillips remarried, lived for a time in Amenia, New York, and then settled in 1836 in Kent... Read full biography
Ammi Phillips was born in Colebrook, Connecticut and began painting portraits of western Massachusetts subjects in about 1811. In 1813 he married Laura Brockway of Schodack, New York, and briefly lived in Troy before settling in Rhinebeck, in Dutchess County. While there, Phillips painted likenesses on both sides of the New York/New England border. These "Border Period'' portraits, executed in pastel shades from 1812 through 1819, feature sitters with gangly arms, glancing sideways. In the 1820s, Phillips experimented with dark and light color contrasts in his portraits of Dutchess, Orange, and Columbia County residents. After his first wife's death, Phillips remarried, lived for a time in Amenia, New York, and then settled in 1836 in Kent and Sharon, Connecticut. His "Kent Period'' portraits feature darker compositions, often with brilliant patc... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (68)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Artists of the Litchfield Hills (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Austin, Robert Michael
132 pages (color)
An American Point of View The Daniel J. Terra Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Kennedy and Bourguignon(essays
194 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776-1876
1997
Lipman, Jean; Alice Winchester
288 pages (color)
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815
1994
Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque
628 pages
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
Revisiting Ammi Phillips: Fifty Years of American Portraiture (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Fertig, Howard;Stacy Hollander
80 pages (color)
American Naive Paintings (National Gallery Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Chotner, Deborah
668 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam
1991
Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll.
271 pages (color)
Between the Rivers/Itinerant Painters from the Connecticut to the Hudson (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Heslip, Colleen C
95 pages (color)
Plain Painters Making Sense of American Folk Art
1988
Vlach, John Michael
206 pages (color)
Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago
1988
Wood, James N/Katherine Lee
168 pages (color)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987
Krane, Susan
379 pages (color)
A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art
1987
Neff, Terry (editor)
300 pages (color)
125 Masterpieces: From the Collection of Albright-Knox
1987
Schultz, Douglas (Intro)
264 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art
1983
Johnston, Sona K
187 pages (color)
Hudson Valley People Albany to Yonkers, 1700-1900 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Faison, S Lane/Sally Mills
63 pages
Lines of Different Character Americn Art from 1727 to 1947 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
106 pages (color)
American Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods
1982
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
100 pages (color)
The Art of Healing, Medicine and Science in American Art (Birmingham Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Gerdts, William H
120 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
American Folk Portraits from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center
1981
Rumford, Beatrix
295 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Painting
1981
San Diego Museum of Art
240 pages (color)
American Art from the Gallery's Collection October 4 - 25, 1980
1980
Galleries, Hirschl and Adler
112 pages (color)
American Folk Painters of Three Centuries
1980
Lipman, Jean and Tom Armstrong
233 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Folk Painters of America
1979
Bishop, Robert
255 pages (color)
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
American Folk Art Nov. 26-Dec. 29, 1977
1978
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
44 pages (color)
Art About Art
1978
Lipman, Jean/Richard Marshall
176 pages (color)
Spencer Museum of Art Handbook of the Collection
1978
Spencer Museum of Art
168 pages (color)
Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1978
William Rockhill Nelson G of A
72 pages (color)
American Folk Painting William E Wiltshire Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Woodward, Richard B
110 pages (color)
Portrait Painting in America The Nineteenth Century
1977
Miles, Ellen G (editor)
176 pages (color)
American Painting From Its Beginnings to the Armory Show
1977
Prown, Jules David; John Walker (Intro)
133 pages (color)
American Painting From the Colonial Period to the Present
1977
Prown, Jules/Barbara Rose
277 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
200 Jahre Amerikanische Malerei 1776-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
140 pages (color)
Where Liberty Dwells 19th Century Art by the American People (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Tillou, Peter
114 pages (color)
American Folk Painters
1975
Ebert, John and Katherine
225 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
The Heritage of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Howat, John K/Natalie Spassky
237 pages (color)
The Gift of American Naive Painting 48 Masterpieces, W Chrysler Garbisch Collection
1975
Schaeffer, Clifford W
68 pages
One Hundred/An Exhibition to Celebrate the Centenial Year (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Smith College
83 pages
First Flowers of Our Wilderness (University of Arizona Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Steadman, William E
143 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections
1974
Gidley, Mick
58 pages
A History of American Painting
1973
Bennett, Ian
240 pages (color)
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972
1972
Amon Carter Museum
600 pages
Nineteenth Century American Painting
1970
Flexner, James Thomas
256 pages
Plain and Fancy A Survey of American Folk Art
1970
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
72 pages (color)
American Painting From Its Beginnings to the Armory Show