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1803 Dover, New Hampshire - 1882 Kentucky. Known for: Naive portrait painting of small-town residents.
An itinerant, collaborative portrait painter with her husband, Ruth Shute was born in Dover, New Hampshire, and was married in 1827 to artist Samuel Addison Shute, a doctor and portrait painter. They... Read full biography
An itinerant, collaborative portrait painter with her husband, Ruth Shute was born in Dover, New Hampshire, and was married in 1827 to artist Samuel Addison Shute, a doctor and portrait painter. They settled in Weare, New Hampshire but traveled widely to paint portraits. They would advertise in... Read full biography
An itinerant, collaborative portrait painter with her husband, Ruth Shute was born in Dover, New Hampshire, and was married in 1827 to artist Samuel Addison Shute, a doctor and portrait painter. They settled in Weare, New Hampshire but traveled widely to paint portraits. They would advertise in local papers that they were available for portrait painting and stay as long as the commissions lasted. In 1833, in Peterborough, New Hampshire, they finished eighteen portraits in thirty-one days. About... Read full biography
An itinerant, collaborative portrait painter with her husband, Ruth Shute was born in Dover, New Hampshire, and was married in 1827 to artist Samuel Addison Shute, a doctor and portrait painter. They settled in Weare, New Hampshire but traveled widely to paint portraits. They would advertise in local papers that they were available for portrait painting and stay as long as the commissions lasted. In 1833, in Peterborough, New Hampshire, they finished eighteen portraits in thirty-one days. About twenty-five portraits are extant from the early painting period of 1827 to 1831, fifteen by him and ten by Ruth. The earliest signed portrait by both of them was for the Atkinson family in Lowell, Massachusetts, and it is dated 1831. They combined... Read full biography
An itinerant, collaborative portrait painter with her husband, Ruth Shute was born in Dover, New Hampshire, and was married in 1827 to artist Samuel Addison Shute, a doctor and portrait painter. They settled in Weare, New Hampshire but traveled widely to paint portraits. They would advertise in local papers that they were available for portrait painting and stay as long as the commissions lasted. In 1833, in Peterborough, New Hampshire, they finished eighteen portraits in thirty-one days. About twenty-five portraits are extant from the early painting period of 1827 to 1831, fifteen by him and ten by Ruth. The earliest signed portrait by both of them was for the Atkinson family in Lowell, Massachusetts, and it is dated 1831. They combined media in their portraits, using watercolor, pencil, gouache, pastel and gilt-foil. After... 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 pagesAmerican Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin877 pages (color)300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986Zellman, Michael David1,102 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 pagesAmerican Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer560 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 Painters
1975Ebert, John and Katherine225 pages (color)Plain and Fancy A Survey of American Folk Art
1970Hirschl & Adler Galleries72 pages (color)101 American Primitive Watercolor And Pastels
1966
(Exhibition catalog)National Gallery of Art141 pages (color)