藝術家Ammi PHILLIPS (1788-1865) 生平簡歷

出生地： Colebrook, CT

死亡地点： Curtisville (now Interlaken), MA

职业： Itinerant portrait painter

教育： self-taught

工作： Fogg Art Mus., Harvard Univ.; Princeton Univ.; Conn. Hist. Soc., Hartford; Shelburne (VT) Mus.; Rockefeller Folk Art Cntr., Williamsburg, VA; Albany Inst.; AIC; Berkshire Mus., Pittsfield, MA; MMA; Senate House, Kingston, NY

评论： Son of Samuel and Milla Phillips of Colebrook, CT. His earliest known work dates from 1811. Some of his work had been previously identified as the work of two artists known as the Border Limner and the Kent Limner. However, in 1958, researchers looking closely at geneological and stylistic evidence concluded that the work of the Border Limner was actually an early phase of the Kent Limner (see Barbara and Larry Holdridge) and that the artist responsible for these paintings was Phillips. It appears that Phillips established himself as a portraitist in Albany, NY, by 1813. After marrying in Nassau, NY, he and his wife moved to Troy, NY. From there he made painting trips all along what was called the Border Country (the border of CT and NY) until c.1819, painting in a primitive style. During the 1820s, he made trips down the west side of the Hudson, down to Orange County, NY and east through Dutchess County, NY. His works became increasingly more expressive and stylized. In the 1830s, he was painting the wealthy families of Kent, CT. In later years he lived in the Dutchess County towns of Poughkeepsie, Amenia, and Northeast. Late in his life, he moved to the Berkshires and resided in Curtisville, MA. Phillips was a prolific artist, painting until the end of his life. Approx. 500 portraits have been assigned and/or attributed to him. In 1998, his portrait, "Girl in Red" was selected by the U.S. Postal Service to be featured as a new postage stamp. Cf. ---- Philips and ---- Phillipa.

来源： G&W; Barbara & Larry Holdridge, Ammi Phillips: Portrait Painter (NY, 1968); Muller, Paintings and Drawings at the Shelburne Museum, 102 (w/repro.); Baigell, Dictionary; 300 Years of American Art, vol. 1, 104