Portrait of Boy with Orange Shoes
Artist
Ammi Phillips
(American, 1788-1865)
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1815
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 45 x 24 5/8 in. (114.3 x 62.5 cm)
Overall, Frame: 48 3/8 x 28 1/8 in. (122.9 x 71.4 cm)
Overall, Frame: 48 3/8 x 28 1/8 in. (122.9 x 71.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Object number76.53.16
Not on view
DescriptionFull length portrait of a young boy. He wears a black outfit with a white collar. He holds a hat in one hand and books in the other.Exhibition History"Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., March 1 - July 4, 1976. "Revisiting Ammi Phillips: Fifty Years of American Portraiture," Museum of American Folk Art, New York, February 5 - April 17, 1994; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, July 9 - September 4, 1994; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, October 8 - Secember 31, 1994. Published ReferencesDennis R. Anderson, THREE HUNDRED YEARS OF AMERICAN ART IN THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM (Norfolk, VA: 1976), p. 64, b/w ill. Stacy C. Hollander, REVISITING AMMI PHILLIPS: FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN PORTRAITURE (NY: Museum of American Folk Art, 1994), Color plate VII, p. 28; Plate VII, p. 50.
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