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Ammi Phillips

Alsa Slade, 1816

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 102 x 83.8 cm (40 3/16 x 33 in.)

framed: 107.9 x 91.4 x 3.4 cm (42 1/2 x 36 x 1 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1953.5.53

Artists / Makers

Ammi Phillips (artist) American, 1788 - 1865

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Inscription

on reverse (no longer visible, photograph in object file [1953.5.53] in NGA curatorial records): ALCE SLADE AGED 49 YEARS AD 1816

Provenance

Recorded as from New York State. Possibly once located in the Red, White, and Blue House built by Benjamin Slade, son of Joseph and Alsa Slade, in Waterford, New York.[1] Found in Lansingburgh (now part of Troy), New York, by (Frederick Fuessenich, Litchfield, Connecticut); sold 1952 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift 1953 to NGA.

[1] Patty Marshall, Slade descendant, undated letter (reply dated 25 March 1968), in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Fuessenich, Frederick W. and Jean C.
Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Slade, Benjamin
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1954: American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 40, as Alice Slade.

1955: American Primitive Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.

1957: American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part II, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1957.

1958: Rediscovered Painters of Upstate New York, traveling exhibition circulated by New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, 1958-1959, no. 12, as Alice Slade by The Border Limner.

1961: 101 Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by the Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., 1961-1964, no. 38, repro., as Alice Slade. First venue: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.

1965: Ammi Phillips, 1788-1865, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, 1965-1966, special issue of Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 30 (October 1965), 100, 117, no. 35.

1966: American Folk Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Early American Folk Arts (now Museum of American Folk Art), held at Time-Life Exhibit Center, New York, 1966, no cat.

1967: Fifty Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, 1967, no cat.

1968: American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., 1968-1970, no. 34, repro. First venue: Grand Palais, Paris.

1970: American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, organized by the Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., and Mainichi News., Nihobashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, 1970, no cat.

1975: The World of Franklin and Jefferson, traveling exhibition circulated by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, 6 venues (Paris, Warsaw, London, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles), 1975-1977, not included in cat.

1978: The American Folk Art Tradition: Paintings from the Garbisch Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978.

1985: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, traveling exh. by the International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, 1985-1987, no. 48, color repro. First venue: Museum of American Folk Art, New York.

1988: La Nascita di Una Nazione: Pittori americani dalla National Gallery of Art di Washington 1730-1880, Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, Bologna; Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna di Ca'Pesaro, Venice, 1988-1989, no. 48, repro.

1994: Revisiting Ammi Phillips: Fifty Years of American Portraiture, Museum of American Folk Art, New York; San Diego Museum of Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, 1994, plate X.

2006: White on White (and a little grey), American Folk Art Museum, New York, 2006, no cat.

Bibliography

1966: Warren, William Lamson. "Ammi Phillips, A Critique." Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 31 (January 1966): 8, 13.

1969: Holdridge, Barbara C., and Lawrence B. Holdridge. "Ammi Phillips: Portrait Painter 1788-1865." Exh. cat. Museum of American Folk Art, New York, 1969: 12, 41, 46.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 88, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 209, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 260, repro.

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: 272-273, color repro. 274.