Erastus Salisbury Field

American, 1805 - 1900

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American folk art painter (1805-1900)

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Erastus Salisbury Field, Ark of the Covenant, c. 1865/1880, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1956.13.3

Ark of the Covenant

Erastus Salisbury Field · c. 1865/1880 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1956.13.3

Erastus Salisbury Field, Pharaoh's Army Marching, c. 1865/1880, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1978.80.4

Pharaoh's Army Marching

Erastus Salisbury Field · c. 1865/1880 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1978.80.4

Dozens of light-skinned men and women gather around clusters of columns and sandstone-colored buildings that line a crimson-red river to our right in this horizontal painting. The center of the painting is dominated by a structure made up of three rows of three columns each, which hold up a flat-topped roof. A similar structure angles into the distance along the left edge of the painting. The columns of these two structures are carved with bands showing people separated by rings of vertical lines. The capitals are carved with stylized leaves. Just beyond the columns to our left, a blocky, rose-pink structure is carved with more people, seated or standing singly or in pairs. More rectangular, parchment-brown buildings extend into the distance along the water’s edge. The people gathered along the riverbank wear robes and tunics in deep blue or black, bright white, or saturated tones of cobalt blue, ruby red, or shell pink. Standing within the columns of the central structure, a crowned, bearded man wearing an emerald-green robe under a scarlet-red cloak gestures to our right, toward the red river. A woman nearby, wearing lapis blue and also crowned, watches with hands flung up as a person pours red liquid from a bucket. Most of the other people look or gesture toward the river, which winds in deep S-curves from the horizon line, which comes about two-thirds of the way up the composition, through sage-green fields, to the town. A single, white lightning bolt zigzags down from a white cloud in an otherwise navy-blue sky above.
Erastus Salisbury Field, "He Turned Their Waters into Blood", c. 1865/1880, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1964.23.3

"He Turned Their Waters into Blood"

Erastus Salisbury Field · c. 1865/1880 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1964.23.3

Erastus Salisbury Field, The Taj Mahal, c. 1860/1880, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1978.80.3

The Taj Mahal

Erastus Salisbury Field · c. 1860/1880 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1978.80.3

Erastus Salisbury Field, Leverett Pond, c. 1860/1880, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1978.80.5

Leverett Pond

Erastus Salisbury Field · c. 1860/1880 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1978.80.5

Erastus Salisbury Field, Man with a Tune Book: Possibly Mr. Cook, c. 1838, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1978.80.6

Man with a Tune Book: Possibly Mr. Cook

Erastus Salisbury Field · c. 1838 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1978.80.6

Erastus Salisbury Field, Mr. Pease, c. 1837, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1965.15.1

Mr. Pease

Erastus Salisbury Field · c. 1837 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1965.15.1

Erastus Salisbury Field, Mrs. Harlow A. Pease, c. 1837, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1965.15.2

Mrs. Harlow A. Pease

Erastus Salisbury Field · c. 1837 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1965.15.2

Erastus Salisbury Field, Woman Holding a Book, c. 1835, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.62.7

Woman Holding a Book

Erastus Salisbury Field · c. 1835 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1980.62.7

Erastus Salisbury Field, Paul Smith Palmer, 1835/1838, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1971.83.4

Paul Smith Palmer

Erastus Salisbury Field · 1835/1838 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1971.83.4

Bibliography

1963

  • Black, Mary C. "Erastus Salisbury Field and the Sources of His Inspiration." Antiques 83 (February 1963): 201-206.

  • Black, Mary C. Erastus Salisbury Field, 1805-1900. Exh. cat. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, 1963.

  • French, Reginald F., and Agnes M. Dods. "Erastus Salisbury Field, 1805-1900." Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 28 (October 1963): 97-144.

1966

  • Black, Mary C. "Rediscovery: Erastus Salisbury Field." Art in America 54 (January-February 1966): 49-56.

1980

  • Black, Mary C. "Erastus Salisbury Field, 1805-1900." In Lipman and Armstrong 1980, 75-81.

1981

  • Rumford 1981, 93-101.

1984

  • Black, Mary C. Erastus Salisbury Field 1805-1900. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1984.

1992

  • Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 111-112.