The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
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1797 Cornwall, Vermont - 1868 Lombard, IL. Known for: Naive portrait often group and landscape painting.
Born in Cornwall, Vermont, Sheldon Peck became an itinerant portrait painter. He was self-taught and did not sign his work, but his distinctive style of using a long brushstroke flanked by two... Read full biography
Born in Cornwall, Vermont, Sheldon Peck became an itinerant portrait painter. He was self-taught and did not sign his work, but his distinctive style of using a long brushstroke flanked by two shorter ones--resembling a rabbit's foot has become his signature. His early works, family portraits in... Read full biography
Born in Cornwall, Vermont, Sheldon Peck became an itinerant portrait painter. He was self-taught and did not sign his work, but his distinctive style of using a long brushstroke flanked by two shorter ones--resembling a rabbit's foot has become his signature. His early works, family portraits in Vermont, were brushed onto wood panels, and he used somber colors, dark backgrounds, and detailed clothing. In 1828, he moved to a farm in Jordan, Onandaga County, New York and then began to paint with... Read full biography
Born in Cornwall, Vermont, Sheldon Peck became an itinerant portrait painter. He was self-taught and did not sign his work, but his distinctive style of using a long brushstroke flanked by two shorter ones--resembling a rabbit's foot has become his signature. His early works, family portraits in Vermont, were brushed onto wood panels, and he used somber colors, dark backgrounds, and detailed clothing. In 1828, he moved to a farm in Jordan, Onandaga County, New York and then began to paint with brighter colors. He continued to paint half and three-quarter length portraits on wood panels and added highly detailed settings and an occasional landscape in the background. In 1837, he moved to Babcock's Grove, (Lombard by 1868), near Chicago,... Read full biography
Born in Cornwall, Vermont, Sheldon Peck became an itinerant portrait painter. He was self-taught and did not sign his work, but his distinctive style of using a long brushstroke flanked by two shorter ones--resembling a rabbit's foot has become his signature. His early works, family portraits in Vermont, were brushed onto wood panels, and he used somber colors, dark backgrounds, and detailed clothing. In 1828, he moved to a farm in Jordan, Onandaga County, New York and then began to paint with brighter colors. He continued to paint half and three-quarter length portraits on wood panels and added highly detailed settings and an occasional landscape in the background. In 1837, he moved to Babcock's Grove, (Lombard by 1868), near Chicago, Illinois, and became a farmer and community leader who opened a school for his own and other children.... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (16)
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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)Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990Gerdts, William H421 pages (color)Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990Gerdts, William H396 pages (color)300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986Zellman, Michael David1,102 pages (color)American Folk Painters of Three Centuries
1980Lipman, Jean and Tom Armstrong233 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 pagesAmerican Folk Painting William E Wiltshire Collection
1978
(Exhibition catalog)Woodward, Richard B110 pages (color)Currents of Expansion Painting in the Midwest, 1820-1940
1977
(Exhibition catalog)Barter, Judith; Lynn E Springer189 pagesBright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc208 pages (color)American Folk Painters
1975Ebert, John and Katherine225 pages (color)American Folk Painting
1966Black, Mary/Jean Lipman244 pages (color)