Born in Freetown, Massachusetts to a large Quaker family, Rufus Hathaway trained in the family business of carpentry and ship building. By the early 1790s, he was working as an itinerant artist in... Read full biography
Born in Freetown, Massachusetts to a large Quaker family, Rufus Hathaway trained in the family business of carpentry and ship building. By the early 1790s, he was working as an itinerant artist in the nearby Taunton area. By 1792, he made Duxbury, Massachusetts his permanent home, and he painted... Read full biography
Born in Freetown, Massachusetts to a large Quaker family, Rufus Hathaway trained in the family business of carpentry and ship building. By the early 1790s, he was working as an itinerant artist in the nearby Taunton area. By 1792, he made Duxbury, Massachusetts his permanent home, and he painted portraits of both family members and prominent community people. He painted miniatures, and only four have been located, and only three landscape paintings are attributed to him. He married Judith... Read full biography
Born in Freetown, Massachusetts to a large Quaker family, Rufus Hathaway trained in the family business of carpentry and ship building. By the early 1790s, he was working as an itinerant artist in the nearby Taunton area. By 1792, he made Duxbury, Massachusetts his permanent home, and he painted portraits of both family members and prominent community people. He painted miniatures, and only four have been located, and only three landscape paintings are attributed to him. He married Judith Winsor, whose father dissuaded Hathaway from being an artist. Some time later, he became Duxbury's resident doctor, a profession with more predictable income. In 1822, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society. That same year... Read full biography
Born in Freetown, Massachusetts to a large Quaker family, Rufus Hathaway trained in the family business of carpentry and ship building. By the early 1790s, he was working as an itinerant artist in the nearby Taunton area. By 1792, he made Duxbury, Massachusetts his permanent home, and he painted portraits of both family members and prominent community people. He painted miniatures, and only four have been located, and only three landscape paintings are attributed to him. He married Judith Winsor, whose father dissuaded Hathaway from being an artist. Some time later, he became Duxbury's resident doctor, a profession with more predictable income. In 1822, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society. That same year he died, and is buried in the Mayflower Cemetery of Duxbury. Source:. Michael David Zellman, 300 Years of American... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (29)
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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
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)
New World Visions of Household Gods and Sacred Places American Art, 1650-1914
1988
Scully, Vincent
183 pages (color)
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)
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)
Folk Painters of America
1979
Bishop, Robert
255 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
American Folk Painting William E Wiltshire Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Woodward, Richard B
110 pages (color)
Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976
Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc
208 pages (color)
Paintings by New England Provincial Artists, 1775-1800 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Little, Nina Fletcher
173 pages
A Bicentennial Treasury American Masterpieces from the Metropolitan
1976
Tracy, Berry and Howat, John
82 pages (color)
American Folk Painters
1975
Ebert, John and Katherine
225 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
1972
Price, Vincent
320 pages (color)
Great American Paintings from the Boston and Metropolitan Museums (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Maytham, Thomas N
160 pages (color)
Arts of the Young Republic The Age of William Dunlap (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Dickson, Harold E
234 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 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
101 Masterpieces of Primitive American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1961
Rorimer, James/JohnWalker
159 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860