Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog after Ammi Phillips Tortoiseshell Painted 33"

Description

Large vintage print depicting "Girl in Red Dress with cat and Dog" by American portrait artist Ammi Phillips, originally painted circa 1830-1835. Shows a young girl dressed in a bright red dress, holding a white cat on her lap and a small dog at her feet. Black and faux tortoiseshell painted frame, print under museum glass..

"Ammi Phillips (April 24, 1788 – July 11, 1865) was a prolific American itinerant portrait painter active from the mid 1810s to the early 1860s in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. His artwork is identified as folk art, primitive art, provincial art, and itinerant art without consensus among scholars, pointing to the enigmatic nature of his work and life. He is attributed to over eight hundred paintings, although only eleven are signed. While his paintings are formulaic in nature, Phillips paintings were under constant construction, evolving as he added or discarded what he found successful, while taking care to add personal details that spoke to the identity of those who hired him. He is most famous for his portraits of children in red, although children only account for ten percent of his entire body of work. The most well known of this series, Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog, sold in 1985 for one million dollars, a first for folk art. His paintings hung mostly unidentified, spare for some recognition in the collections like those of Edward Duff Balken, for decades until his oeuvre was reconstructed by Barbara Holdridge and Larry Holdridge, collectors and students of American folk art, with the support of the art historian Mary Black. Ammi Phillip's body of work was expanded upon their discovery that the mysterious paintings of a "Kent Limner" and "Border Limner" were indeed his." (Wikipedia)

Condition

Wear and distressing from age, scuffing to frame, crazing to print.

Dimensions

28" x 1.25" x 33" (Width x Depth x Height)