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1772 Leicester, Massachusetts - 1848 Ashby, Massachusetts. Known for: Naive mixed-media profile portrait, stitchery, pastel portrait painting.
Ruth Henshaw Bascom was born in Leicester, Massachusetts. Her life and career as a portraitist are exceptionally well documented, owing to the existence of the journal she kept from 1789 through... Read full biography
Ruth Henshaw Bascom was born in Leicester, Massachusetts. Her life and career as a portraitist are exceptionally well documented, owing to the existence of the journal she kept from 1789 through 1846, in which she recorded more than one-thousand likenesses. After the death of her first husband in... Read full biography
Ruth Henshaw Bascom was born in Leicester, Massachusetts. Her life and career as a portraitist are exceptionally well documented, owing to the existence of the journal she kept from 1789 through 1846, in which she recorded more than one-thousand likenesses. After the death of her first husband in 1805, the artist married the Reverend Ezekiel Bascom and settled in Gerry (now Phillipston), Massachusetts, where she was a teacher, church record keeper, librarian, hat maker, and artist. In 1821 the... Read full biography
Ruth Henshaw Bascom was born in Leicester, Massachusetts. Her life and career as a portraitist are exceptionally well documented, owing to the existence of the journal she kept from 1789 through 1846, in which she recorded more than one-thousand likenesses. After the death of her first husband in 1805, the artist married the Reverend Ezekiel Bascom and settled in Gerry (now Phillipston), Massachusetts, where she was a teacher, church record keeper, librarian, hat maker, and artist. In 1821 the Bascoms moved to Ashby, Massachusetts, and by 1828 Ruth was producing about forty portraits a year, working in Ashby, Cambridge Port, Boston, and Athol, Massachusetts. After Reverend Bascom's failing health forced him to spend winters in Savannah,... Read full biography
Ruth Henshaw Bascom was born in Leicester, Massachusetts. Her life and career as a portraitist are exceptionally well documented, owing to the existence of the journal she kept from 1789 through 1846, in which she recorded more than one-thousand likenesses. After the death of her first husband in 1805, the artist married the Reverend Ezekiel Bascom and settled in Gerry (now Phillipston), Massachusetts, where she was a teacher, church record keeper, librarian, hat maker, and artist. In 1821 the Bascoms moved to Ashby, Massachusetts, and by 1828 Ruth was producing about forty portraits a year, working in Ashby, Cambridge Port, Boston, and Athol, Massachusetts. After Reverend Bascom's failing health forced him to spend winters in Savannah, Georgia, Ruth stayed behind and traveled in central Massachusetts and parts of Maine painting portraits.... 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)Meet Your Neighbors New England Portraits, Painters/1790-1850
1992
(Exhibition catalog)Larkin, Jack (others)143 pages (color)Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie851 pagesArtists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983Wright, R Lewis200 pagesAmerican Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer560 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)Folk Painters of America
1979Bishop, Robert255 pages (color)Folk Art in America Painting and Sculpture
1979Ericson, Jack T275 pagesArts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel736 pagesThe Second Fifty Years:American Art 1826-1876
1976Riggs, Timothy A95 pagesAmerican Folk Painters
1975Ebert, John and Katherine225 pages (color)Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973Collins, Jim L.426 pagesThe American Tradition in the Arts
1968McLanathan, Richard492 pages101 American Primitive Watercolor And Pastels
1966
(Exhibition catalog)National Gallery of Art141 pages (color)Women Artists of America 1707-1964
1965
(Exhibition catalog)Gerdts, William H32 pagesThe New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957Groce, George; David Wallace759 pagesPictorial Folk Art New England to California
1949Ford, Alice172 pages (color)Some American Primitives of New England Faces and Folk Portraits
1941Sears, Clara Endicott291 pages