An itinerant painter who was born in Massachusetts, Joseph Chandler was a typical folk artist who traveled from place to place painting portraits, but unlike many of them who remained anonymous, he... Read full biography
An itinerant painter who was born in Massachusetts, Joseph Chandler was a typical folk artist who traveled from place to place painting portraits, but unlike many of them who remained anonymous, he signed and dated his paintings on the backs of the canvases. He also painted an occasional still life... Read full biography
An itinerant painter who was born in Massachusetts, Joseph Chandler was a typical folk artist who traveled from place to place painting portraits, but unlike many of them who remained anonymous, he signed and dated his paintings on the backs of the canvases. He also painted an occasional still life and landscape. He was especially skilled with child portraits in that he captured the awkwardness of his sitters and often included toys and pets and a landscape in the background--something he did... Read full biography
An itinerant painter who was born in Massachusetts, Joseph Chandler was a typical folk artist who traveled from place to place painting portraits, but unlike many of them who remained anonymous, he signed and dated his paintings on the backs of the canvases. He also painted an occasional still life and landscape. He was especially skilled with child portraits in that he captured the awkwardness of his sitters and often included toys and pets and a landscape in the background--something he did not do with his adult subjects.... Read full biography
An itinerant painter who was born in Massachusetts, Joseph Chandler was a typical folk artist who traveled from place to place painting portraits, but unlike many of them who remained anonymous, he signed and dated his paintings on the backs of the canvases. He also painted an occasional still life and landscape. He was especially skilled with child portraits in that he captured the awkwardness of his sitters and often included toys and pets and a landscape in the background--something he did not do with his adult subjects.... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (16)
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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
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Catalogue of The Collection: Museum, St. Petersburg Florida
1994
Lesko, Diane, (Ed)
366 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
Between the Rivers/Itinerant Painters from the Connecticut to the Hudson (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Heslip, Colleen C
95 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Folk Art in America Painting and Sculpture
1979
Ericson, Jack T
275 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (A Catalogue to 1923)
1976
Flower, Dean/Francis Murphy
119 pages
American Folk Painters
1975
Ebert, John and Katherine
225 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)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
Some American Primitives of New England Faces and Folk Portraits