Born in Leverett, Massachusetts, Erastus Field kept his home most of his life in that state but did study briefly with Samuel F.B. Morse in New York City where he lived from 1842 to 1848. He was a... Read full biography
Born in Leverett, Massachusetts, Erastus Field kept his home most of his life in that state but did study briefly with Samuel F.B. Morse in New York City where he lived from 1842 to 1848. He was a folk portrait artist with little modeling skill, but is remembered for the social idealism exhibited... Read full biography
Born in Leverett, Massachusetts, Erastus Field kept his home most of his life in that state but did study briefly with Samuel F.B. Morse in New York City where he lived from 1842 to 1848. He was a folk portrait artist with little modeling skill, but is remembered for the social idealism exhibited by his subjects. Unlike many of his peers who painted faces on pre-painted bodies, he did the faces first and the clothing addressed social position. He also did historical subjects, one of them being... Read full biography
Born in Leverett, Massachusetts, Erastus Field kept his home most of his life in that state but did study briefly with Samuel F.B. Morse in New York City where he lived from 1842 to 1848. He was a folk portrait artist with little modeling skill, but is remembered for the social idealism exhibited by his subjects. Unlike many of his peers who painted faces on pre-painted bodies, he did the faces first and the clothing addressed social position. He also did historical subjects, one of them being an American Centennial commemoration for Springfield, Massachusetts. He was also known for his scenes from classical mythology and Biblical history. His wife was artist, Phebe Gilmore, who exhibited as Mrs. P. G. Field at the American Institute in... Read full biography
Born in Leverett, Massachusetts, Erastus Field kept his home most of his life in that state but did study briefly with Samuel F.B. Morse in New York City where he lived from 1842 to 1848. He was a folk portrait artist with little modeling skill, but is remembered for the social idealism exhibited by his subjects. Unlike many of his peers who painted faces on pre-painted bodies, he did the faces first and the clothing addressed social position. He also did historical subjects, one of them being an American Centennial commemoration for Springfield, Massachusetts. He was also known for his scenes from classical mythology and Biblical history. His wife was artist, Phebe Gilmore, who exhibited as Mrs. P. G. Field at the American Institute in New York City. The Fields lived first in Hartford, Connecticut, then in Monson and Palmer, Massachuset... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (87)
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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
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)
Common Ground/Uncommon Vision Michael & Julie Hall Collection American Folk Art (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Lippard, Lucy/J Hayes/K Ames
335 pages (color)
American Naive Paintings (National Gallery Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Chotner, Deborah
668 pages (color)
Meet Your Neighbors New England Portraits, Painters/1790-1850 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Larkin, Jack (others)
143 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
America in Art Fifty Great Paintings Celebrating Fifty Years (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
112 pages
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
Between the Rivers/Itinerant Painters from the Connecticut to the Hudson (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Heslip, Colleen C
95 pages (color)
Just Looking Essays on Art
1989
Updike, John
210 pages
American Folk Paintings Paintings and Drawings Other Than Portraits
1988
Rumford, Beatrix
449 pages (color)
Plain Painters Making Sense of American Folk Art
1988
Vlach, John Michael
206 pages (color)
American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art
1988
Wilmerding, John
208 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 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)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Great Boston Collectors Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts
1984
Troyen, Carol/Pamela Tabbaa
151 pages (color)
American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art
1983
Johnston, Sona K
187 pages (color)
The Art Museums of New England
1982
Faison, S Lane Jr
490 pages
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)
American Folk Painters of Three Centuries
1980
Lipman, Jean and Tom Armstrong
233 pages (color)
American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art
1980
Wilmerding, John
180 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Folk Painters of America
1979
Bishop, Robert
255 pages (color)
An American Bestiary
1979
Haverstock, Mary Sayre
248 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections
1979
Springfield Library & Museum
216 pages (color)
American Art from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum
1979
Teitz, Richard Stuart
118 pages
The Eccentrics and Other American Visionary Painters
1978
Davidson, Abraham A
203 pages (color)
American Realism
1978
Mathey, Francois
192 pages
American Painting from the Museum's Collection c1800-1930
1977
Rhode Island School of Design
241 pages
American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp
252 pages (color)
The American Flag in the Art of Our Country (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Allentown Art Museum
92 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976
Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc
208 pages (color)
The Second Fifty Years:American Art 1826-1876
1976
Riggs, Timothy A
95 pages
Where Liberty Dwells 19th Century Art by the American People (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Tillou, Peter
114 pages (color)
The Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of Collections
1975
Buckley, Charles E
377 pages (color)
American Folk Painters
1975
Ebert, John and Katherine
225 pages (color)
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
The Great American Nude A History in Art
1974
Gerdts, William H
224 pages (color)
American Narrative Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure
192 pages (color)
Art in America A Brief History
1973
McClanathan, Richard
216 pages (color)
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
The Genius of American Painting
1973
Wilmerding, John
352 pages (color)
The Hand and Spirit Religious Art in America 1700-1900 (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Dillenberger, Jane/J C Taylor
192 pages (color)
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
1972
Price, Vincent
320 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
What Is American in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Goodrich, Lloyd/Mary Black
80 pages (color)
The Beckoning Land A Selection of Nineteenth Century Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Vigtel, Gudmund/D Hoopes
94 pages (color)
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)
Great American Paintings from the Boston and Metropolitan Museums (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Maytham, Thomas N
160 pages (color)
Three Centuries of New England Art From New England Museums
1969
Brockton Art Center
48 pages
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
Hudson River School (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Genesco, S U College, New York
200 pages
The Connecticut Artists Collection
1968
Mattatuck Historical Society
84 pages
The American Tradition in the Arts
1968
McLanathan, Richard
492 pages
Traveler's Guide to American Art
1968
Norman, Jane & Theodore
436 pages
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
American Folk Painting
1966
Black, Mary/Jean Lipman
244 pages (color)
American Art A Historical Survey
1966
Green, Samuel M
706 pages
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1966
Los Angeles County Museum
143 pages (color)
American Paintings V 1, Catalog, Metropolitan Museum
1965
Gardner, Albert and S Field
284 pages
A Short History of Painting in America
1963
Richardson, Edgar P
347 pages (color)
History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111)
1962
Flexner, James Thomas
407 pages
American Muse, The
1961
Dorra, Henri
163 pages (color)
101 Masterpieces of Primitive American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1961
Rorimer, James/JohnWalker
159 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Painting
1957
Eliot, Alexander
318 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
La Pittura Americana Dell' Ottocento
1956
Baur, John I H
58 pages
American Painting in the 19th Cent Main Trends and Movements
1953
Baur, John I H
60 pages
Pictorial Folk Art New England to California
1949
Ford, Alice
172 pages (color)
American Realists & Magic Realist (Exhibition catalog)