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New England Woman
New England Woman
Attributed to (1747 - 1790)

New England Woman

Date1775-1785
DimensionsSight: 20 1/4 × 14 3/4 in. (51.4 × 37.5 cm)
Object numberN0295.1961(02)
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label Text- These portraits are the only known works by Winthrop Chandler executed in pastels. With the exception of a possible portrait painting apprenticeship in Boston and about five years in Worcester, Chandler lived his entire life in Chandler Hill, Connecticut. Since Chandler did not sign any of his known works, all attributions are based on documentary evidence that relates the artist to the painting through family tradition or stylistic similarities. The subjects' piercing eyes, tightly pursed lips, beetling brows, and strongly modeled faces are characteristic features of Chandler's work.
Exhibition History“Folk Art from the Collection of the New York State Historical Association,” Museum of American Folk Art, New York City, NY, January 11, 2000 – February 18, 2000.

“American Folk Art: Collection from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France, January 25, 2001 – March 24, 2001.

“Art of the Everyman: American Folk Art from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, May 28, 2014 – September 29, 2014.
BibliographyAgnes Halsey and Louis C. Jones, New Found Folk Art of the Young Republic (exh. cat., New York State Historical Association, 1960).

Paul S. D’Ambrosio and Charlotte Emas, Folk Art’s Many Faces: Portraits in the New York State Historical Association (Cooperstown, NY: New York State Historical Association, 1987), pp.53-56.

Colleen Cowles Heslip, Between the Rivers: Itinerant Painters from the Connecticut to the Hudson (Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1990), 79-80.
On View
Not on view
New England Man
Winthrop Chandler
c. 1780
Elizabeth Hastings Henshaw
Ruth Henshaw Bascom
1839
American Madonna and Child
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Micah Williams
1810-1815
Portrait of a Young Woman
Zedekiah Belknap
1810-1820
Eighteenth Century Woman
Unidentified Artist
1775-1800
Angel
Anderson Johnson
c. 1991
Dr. Joseph Goodhue, Aged 81
Joseph Goodhue Chandler
1844
Eunice Day
John Brewster Jr.
1820
New England Factory Village
Unidentified Artist
c. 1830
Woman
Unidentified Artist
c. 1845

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