Born in Woodstock, Connecticut in the area of Chandler Hill, Winthrop Chandler became an itinerant and poverty-stricken portrait and ornamental landscape painter. He worked mostly in and around... Read full biography
Born in Woodstock, Connecticut in the area of Chandler Hill, Winthrop Chandler became an itinerant and poverty-stricken portrait and ornamental landscape painter. He worked mostly in and around Woodstock and Thompson, Connecticut and in the area of Windham County, Connecticut and Worcester County,... Read full biography
Born in Woodstock, Connecticut in the area of Chandler Hill, Winthrop Chandler became an itinerant and poverty-stricken portrait and ornamental landscape painter. He worked mostly in and around Woodstock and Thompson, Connecticut and in the area of Windham County, Connecticut and Worcester County, Massachusetts. Many of his paintings are large and often are paired portraits of husbands and wives. He often included interior details and items in trompe l'oeil style. His art education is unknown,... Read full biography
Born in Woodstock, Connecticut in the area of Chandler Hill, Winthrop Chandler became an itinerant and poverty-stricken portrait and ornamental landscape painter. He worked mostly in and around Woodstock and Thompson, Connecticut and in the area of Windham County, Connecticut and Worcester County, Massachusetts. Many of his paintings are large and often are paired portraits of husbands and wives. He often included interior details and items in trompe l'oeil style. His art education is unknown, although it is possible he studied in Boston. In addition to numerous portraits, he painted many landscapes for over-the-mantels and did other decorations for homes. He spent the last five years of his life in Worcester, Massachusetts where he lay... Read full biography
Born in Woodstock, Connecticut in the area of Chandler Hill, Winthrop Chandler became an itinerant and poverty-stricken portrait and ornamental landscape painter. He worked mostly in and around Woodstock and Thompson, Connecticut and in the area of Windham County, Connecticut and Worcester County, Massachusetts. Many of his paintings are large and often are paired portraits of husbands and wives. He often included interior details and items in trompe l'oeil style. His art education is unknown, although it is possible he studied in Boston. In addition to numerous portraits, he painted many landscapes for over-the-mantels and did other decorations for homes. He spent the last five years of his life in Worcester, Massachusetts where he lay eight books of gold leaf on the courthouse weathervane. He is considered one of the finest provincial artists in America, having pa... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (54)
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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)
Redefining American History Paintng
1995
Burnham, Patricia/L H Giese
409 pages
The Rockefeller Collection American Art (at San Francisco Museums Fine Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Simpson, Marc
315 pages (color)
American Naive Paintings (National Gallery Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Chotner, Deborah
668 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art
1988
Wilmerding, John
208 pages (color)
The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914
1987
Simon, Robin
255 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
National Gallery of Art, Washington New and Revised Edition (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Walker, John
606 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Painters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939
1981
Gerdts, William H
292 pages (color)
The Art of Healing, Medicine and Science in American Art (Birmingham Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Gerdts, William H
120 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
American Folk Painters of Three Centuries
1980
Lipman, Jean and Tom Armstrong
233 pages (color)
American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art
1980
Wilmerding, John
180 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Folk Painters of America
1979
Bishop, Robert
255 pages (color)
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
American Realism
1978
Mathey, Francois
192 pages
American Folk Painting William E Wiltshire Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Woodward, Richard B
110 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 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
American Art: 1750-1800 Towards Independence (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Montgomery, Charles/Pat Kane
320 pages (color)
American Art: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr & Mrs John D Rockefeller 3rd (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Richardson, Edgar P
247 pages (color)
American Folk Painters
1975
Ebert, John and Katherine
225 pages (color)
American Self Portraits 1670-1973 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Van Devanter, Ann, et al
245 pages (color)
Art in America A Brief History
1973
McClanathan, Richard
216 pages (color)
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
1972
Price, Vincent
320 pages (color)
A History of American Painting
1971
Baigell, Mathew
288 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
Plain and Fancy A Survey of American Folk Art
1970
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
72 pages (color)
History of American Painting 1760-1835 The Light of Distant Skies
1969
Flexner, James Thomas
307 pages
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
American Folk Painting
1966
Black, Mary/Jean Lipman
244 pages (color)
American Art A Historical Survey
1966
Green, Samuel M
706 pages
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
The Arts in America Colonial Period
1966
Wright, Louis (others)
368 pages
Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965
Richardson, Edgar P
456 pages (color)
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
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
From Colony to Nation (Exhibition US works to War of 1812) (Exhibition catalog)
1949
Art Institute of Chicago
140 pages
Pictorial Folk Art New England to California
1949
Ford, Alice
172 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931
Barker, Virgil
52 pages
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834)