Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors A Compendium of Favorite Articles from the First Twelve Issues
2006The Vose Family
65 pages (color)
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1774 - 1859. Known for: Naive portrait-itinerant.
With birthplace unknown, William Jennys, an itinerant portrait painter, was painting portraits in the vicinity of New Milford, Connecticut in the mid-1790s, then New York City, and after 1800 in the... Read full biography
With birthplace unknown, William Jennys, an itinerant portrait painter, was painting portraits in the vicinity of New Milford, Connecticut in the mid-1790s, then New York City, and after 1800 in the Connecticut River Valley into Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and the southern states. It... Read full biography
With birthplace unknown, William Jennys, an itinerant portrait painter, was painting portraits in the vicinity of New Milford, Connecticut in the mid-1790s, then New York City, and after 1800 in the Connecticut River Valley into Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and the southern states. It appears that his career began in 1792, when he first advertised in Norwich, Connecticut as a portrait painter. However, "the sedentary life did not suit the independent artist, and he soon became an... Read full biography
With birthplace unknown, William Jennys, an itinerant portrait painter, was painting portraits in the vicinity of New Milford, Connecticut in the mid-1790s, then New York City, and after 1800 in the Connecticut River Valley into Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and the southern states. It appears that his career began in 1792, when he first advertised in Norwich, Connecticut as a portrait painter. However, "the sedentary life did not suit the independent artist, and he soon became an itinerant painter, traveling throughout New England and New York." (Vose). He trained with his father, Richard Jennys, and they traveled together, but William's style was more realistic than his father's and showed "greater attention to the modeling of... Read full biography
With birthplace unknown, William Jennys, an itinerant portrait painter, was painting portraits in the vicinity of New Milford, Connecticut in the mid-1790s, then New York City, and after 1800 in the Connecticut River Valley into Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and the southern states. It appears that his career began in 1792, when he first advertised in Norwich, Connecticut as a portrait painter. However, "the sedentary life did not suit the independent artist, and he soon became an itinerant painter, traveling throughout New England and New York." (Vose). He trained with his father, Richard Jennys, and they traveled together, but William's style was more realistic than his father's and showed "greater attention to the modeling of facial features and the depcition of his sitters' unique personalities." (Vose) But h was unskilled with arms and le... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (47)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesArtists of the Litchfield Hills
2003
(Exhibition catalog)Austin, Robert Michael132 pages (color)Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999Editor, Smith College Museum307 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)American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815
1994Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque628 pagesAmerican Naive Paintings (National Gallery Collection)
1992
(Exhibition catalog)Chotner, Deborah668 pages (color)Facing the Past 19th Century Portraits from Pennsylvania Academy
1992Danly, Susan104 pages (color)American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
1992
(Exhibition catalog)National Gallery of Art545 pagesArt Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990Gerdts, William H421 pages (color)Between the Rivers/Itinerant Painters from the Connecticut to the Hudson
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Heslip, Colleen C95 pages (color)The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989Fresella-Lee, Nancy222 pages (color)The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914
1987Simon, Robin255 pages (color)A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986Chetham, Charles; David Grose312 pages (color)300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986Zellman, Michael David1,102 pages (color)The New England Eye Master American Paintings/New England Collections
1983
(Exhibition catalog)Faison, S Lane1,983 pages (color)The Art Museums of New England
1982Faison, S Lane Jr490 pagesHudson Valley People Albany to Yonkers, 1700-1900
1982
(Exhibition catalog)Faison, S Lane/Sally Mills63 pagesAmerican Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
1982
(Exhibition catalog)Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff213 pagesThe Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981Rugoff, Milton669 pages (color)American Folk Portraits from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center
1981Rumford, Beatrix295 pages (color)Dictionary of American Art
1979Baigell, Mathew390 pagesAmerican Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979Brown, Milton W (others)616 pages (color)Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel736 pagesMuseum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections
1979Springfield Library & Museum216 pages (color)American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977Brown, Milton W631 pages (color)Paintings by New England Provincial Artists, 1775-1800
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Little, Nina Fletcher173 pagesAmerican Art: 1750-1800 Towards Independence
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Montgomery, Charles/Pat Kane320 pages (color)Where Liberty Dwells 19th Century Art by the American People
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Tillou, Peter114 pages (color)American Folk Painters
1975Ebert, John and Katherine225 pages (color)The Gift of American Naive Painting 48 Masterpieces, W Chrysler Garbisch Collection
1975Schaeffer, Clifford W68 pagesFirst Flowers of Our Wilderness (University of Arizona Museum of Art)
1975
(Exhibition catalog)Steadman, William E143 pages (color)Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections
1974Gidley, Mick58 pagesEncyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970Myers, Bernard S (editor)511 pages (color)Arts of the Young Republic The Age of William Dunlap
1968
(Exhibition catalog)Dickson, Harold E234 pagesThe Connecticut Artists Collection
1968Mattatuck Historical Society84 pagesEarly Portraits in Rhode Island
1967
(Exhibition catalog)Rhode Island School of Design30 pagesAmerican Folk Painting
1966Black, Mary/Jean Lipman244 pages (color)American Art A Historical Survey
1966Green, Samuel M706 pagesArt and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966Larkin, Oliver W559 pages (color)Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965Richardson, Edgar P456 pages (color)The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957Groce, George; David Wallace759 pagesEncyclopedia of Painting
1955Myers, Bernard511 pages (color)From Colony to Nation (Exhibition US works to War of 1812)
1949
(Exhibition catalog)Art Institute of Chicago140 pagesSurvey of American Painting
1940
(Exhibition catalog)Carnegie Institute320 pages