Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Nancy Hungerford

Artist Ammi Phillips (American, 1788-1865)

Dateca. 1838

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 32 15/16 x 27 7/16 in. (83.7 x 69.7 cm)
Overall, Frame: 39 1/8 x 33 11/16 x 2 in. (99.4 x 85.6 x 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsAmerican art

Credit LineGift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Object number74.6.13

Terms

Woman
Books
Portrait
American naive

Collections

American Art before 1945

On View

On view

DescriptionOil on canvas painting portrait of Nancy Hungerford. The subject sitts with her right arm resting on a table edge, next to a book. She rests another book in her lap, using her left hand index finger to hold the page, as if keeping place while she posed.

Label TextAmmi Phillips American, 1788—1865 Nancy Hungerford, ca. 1838 Oil on canvas Ammi Phillips worked as an itinerant portraitist traveling throughout rural communities in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. Though he was likely self-taught, he developed a sophisticated portrait style informed by encounters with fellow artists and his own studies. The formal simplicity of Phillips’s straightforward style offered a charming vision of his subjects, such as this confident young woman who appears momentarily distracted from her books. Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch 74.6.13