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1802 Windsor, Connecticut - 1874 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Known for: Miniature watercolor profile portrait.
Silhouettist, portrait, and miniature painter, James Sanford Ellsworth was born in Windsor, Connecticut in 1802. Depicting Massachusetts and Connecticut farmers and their families, the artist painted... Read full biography
Silhouettist, portrait, and miniature painter, James Sanford Ellsworth was born in Windsor, Connecticut in 1802. Depicting Massachusetts and Connecticut farmers and their families, the artist painted miniature watercolor portraits on paper, and all but seven of them are profiles. Only two of the... Read full biography
Silhouettist, portrait, and miniature painter, James Sanford Ellsworth was born in Windsor, Connecticut in 1802. Depicting Massachusetts and Connecticut farmers and their families, the artist painted miniature watercolor portraits on paper, and all but seven of them are profiles. Only two of the full-face miniatures show the entire figure. Many of his sitters are sitting on chairs resembling doll furniture, and often his faces are framed by scalloped clouds, which gives them the appearance of... Read full biography
Silhouettist, portrait, and miniature painter, James Sanford Ellsworth was born in Windsor, Connecticut in 1802. Depicting Massachusetts and Connecticut farmers and their families, the artist painted miniature watercolor portraits on paper, and all but seven of them are profiles. Only two of the full-face miniatures show the entire figure. Many of his sitters are sitting on chairs resembling doll furniture, and often his faces are framed by scalloped clouds, which gives them the appearance of floating in air. He painted images of at least sixty-four children. His signature appears with thirteen variations. Sometimes he used initials, and occasionally he wrote the word "Painter" after his signature. It is also thought that Ellsworth was... Read full biography
Silhouettist, portrait, and miniature painter, James Sanford Ellsworth was born in Windsor, Connecticut in 1802. Depicting Massachusetts and Connecticut farmers and their families, the artist painted miniature watercolor portraits on paper, and all but seven of them are profiles. Only two of the full-face miniatures show the entire figure. Many of his sitters are sitting on chairs resembling doll furniture, and often his faces are framed by scalloped clouds, which gives them the appearance of floating in air. He painted images of at least sixty-four children. His signature appears with thirteen variations. Sometimes he used initials, and occasionally he wrote the word "Painter" after his signature. It is also thought that Ellsworth was self-taught and that he traveled and worked in Louisville, Kentucky and St. Louis, Missouri as well as New Engl... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesThe Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776-1876
1997Lipman, Jean; Alice Winchester288 pages (color)American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin877 pages (color)Between the Rivers/Itinerant Painters from the Connecticut to the Hudson
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Heslip, Colleen C95 pages (color)American Watercolors
1986Finch, Christopher312 pages (color)Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesThe Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981Rugoff, Milton669 pages (color)American Folk Portraits from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center
1981Rumford, Beatrix295 pages (color)American Folk Painters of Three Centuries
1980Lipman, Jean and Tom Armstrong233 pages (color)Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel736 pagesPortrait Painting in America The Nineteenth Century
1977Miles, Ellen G (editor)176 pages (color)Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)270 pages (color)American Folk Painters
1975Ebert, John and Katherine225 pages (color)American Paintings (in) The Rhode Island Historical Society
1974Goodyear, Frank H116 pages (color)James Sanford Ellsworth
1974Mitchell, Lucy B103 pages (color)The American Tradition in the Arts
1968McLanathan, Richard492 pagesThe Artist in America
1967Artist in America, Editors256 pages (color)American Folk Painting
1966Black, Mary/Jean Lipman244 pages (color)The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957Groce, George; David Wallace759 pagesAmerican Painting History and Interpretation
1950Barker, Virgil715 pagesA Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931Barker, Virgil52 pagesShades of Our Ancestors American Profiles and Profilists
1928Carrick, Alice Van Leer205 pages