A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster, Jr.
(Exhibition catalog)
2006D'Ambrosio, Paul S.
64 pages (color)
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1766 Hampton, Connecticut - 1854 Buxton, Maine. Known for: Naive adult and child portrait painting.
Born in Hampton, Connecticut, John Brewster was a deaf-mute born to Dr. John Brewster and Mary Durkee, his first wife. The son was raised in a highly cultured family with seven brothers and sisters.... Read full biography
Born in Hampton, Connecticut, John Brewster was a deaf-mute born to Dr. John Brewster and Mary Durkee, his first wife. The son was raised in a highly cultured family with seven brothers and sisters. His mother died when he was seventeen years old, and the father then married Ruth Avery. Brewster... Read full biography
Born in Hampton, Connecticut, John Brewster was a deaf-mute born to Dr. John Brewster and Mary Durkee, his first wife. The son was raised in a highly cultured family with seven brothers and sisters. His mother died when he was seventeen years old, and the father then married Ruth Avery. Brewster worked successfully as an itinerant portrait painter, especially of children, along the New England coast. He worked extensively in Maine, where his brother, Royal, moved in 1795, taking John Brewster... Read full biography
Born in Hampton, Connecticut, John Brewster was a deaf-mute born to Dr. John Brewster and Mary Durkee, his first wife. The son was raised in a highly cultured family with seven brothers and sisters. His mother died when he was seventeen years old, and the father then married Ruth Avery. Brewster worked successfully as an itinerant portrait painter, especially of children, along the New England coast. He worked extensively in Maine, where his brother, Royal, moved in 1795, taking John Brewster with him. There he met the Cutts famiy, who were local 'gentry' and for whom he did life size standing portraits "of the dourly reproving Col. and Mrs. Thomas Cutts, pictures that bring Brewster, in spirit, close to his Calvinist roots and suggest why... Read full biography
Born in Hampton, Connecticut, John Brewster was a deaf-mute born to Dr. John Brewster and Mary Durkee, his first wife. The son was raised in a highly cultured family with seven brothers and sisters. His mother died when he was seventeen years old, and the father then married Ruth Avery. Brewster worked successfully as an itinerant portrait painter, especially of children, along the New England coast. He worked extensively in Maine, where his brother, Royal, moved in 1795, taking John Brewster with him. There he met the Cutts famiy, who were local 'gentry' and for whom he did life size standing portraits "of the dourly reproving Col. and Mrs. Thomas Cutts, pictures that bring Brewster, in spirit, close to his Calvinist roots and suggest why he so often seems more an 18th than a 19th-century artist." (Cotter). In Maine, he also did many por... Read full biography
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A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster, Jr.
2006The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesThe American Artist in Connecticut The Legacy of the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection
2002
(Exhibition catalog)The Florence Griswold Museum144 pages (color)Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999Editor, Smith College Museum307 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)Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam
1991Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll.271 pages (color)Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990Gerdts, William H421 pages (color)Between the Rivers/Itinerant Painters from the Connecticut to the Hudson
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Heslip, Colleen C95 pages (color)Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pages300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986Zellman, Michael David1,102 pages (color)The Art Museums of New England
1982Faison, S Lane Jr490 pagesAmerican Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods
1982Hirschl & Adler Galleries100 pages (color)The 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)Folk Painters of America
1979Bishop, Robert255 pages (color)Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel736 pagesAmerican Folk Art Nov. 26-Dec. 29, 1977
1978Hirschl & Adler Galleries44 pages (color)American Painting from the Museum's Collection c1800-1930
1977Rhode Island School of Design241 pagesThree Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)270 pages (color)Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc208 pages (color)Paintings by New England Provincial Artists, 1775-1800
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Little, Nina Fletcher173 pagesWhere Liberty Dwells 19th Century Art by the American People
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Tillou, Peter114 pages (color)American Folk Painters
1975Ebert, John and Katherine225 pages (color)The Gift of American Naive Painting 48 Masterpieces, W Chrysler Garbisch Collection
1975Schaeffer, Clifford W68 pagesCatalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections
1974Gidley, Mick58 pagesWhat Is American in American Art
1971
(Exhibition catalog)Goodrich, Lloyd/Mary Black80 pages (color)American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)600 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)Maine and Its Role in American Art, 1740-1953
1963Chase, Mary Ellen; Louisa Dresser, Nina Fletcher Little, et all178 pages (color)The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957Groce, George; David Wallace759 pagesA History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834)
1918Dunlap, William418 pages