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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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Keywords (20)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Children, Child Figure, Genre, Portrait
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Folk Art Portrait
- •Folk Art, Folk Lore
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Life-Size Portrait, Figure, Animal
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Colonial America
- •Virginia Before 1900
Chronology
- •18th Century
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Pastel Specialty