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Dr. Marion Nash married Frances Bestrick on June 4, 1857 in Denmark, Lewis County, New York. He became a well-known citizen of nearby Martinburgh, where he served the community as a physician, member of the board of supervisors and county treasurer. He died there on June 8, 1888 at the age of sixty years, four months and two days. His obituary states that he had been a resident of the village for twenty-eight years, and was survived by a wife, son and daughter
BibliographyAgnes Halsey and Louis C. Jones, New-Found Folk Art of the Young Republic, 1960,(exh.cat., pp. 21-22, no. 37, illus. as fig. 37).
Paul S. D'Ambrosio and Charlotte M. Emans, "Folk Art's Many Faces: Portraits in the New York State Historical Association," Cooperstown: NYSHA, 1987, pp. 207-208.
Artist
Unidentified Artist
(American)
Dr. Marion Nash
Datec. 1850
DimensionsSight: 16 1/4 × 12 1/2 in. (41.3 × 31.8 cm)
Object numberN0298.1959
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Mr. Leonard Pelton
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextThis modest likeness of Dr. Nash sitting next to a writing table with quill pen in hand is executed with sensitivity and skill despite the awkwardly foreshortened arm draped over the chair. The patterned drapery at the left side of the picture adds decoration to this otherwise plain and monochromatic portrait. The artist captured a distinctive feature of this sitter when he drew the continuous line of eyebrow across the subject's forehead.
Dr. Marion Nash married Frances Bestrick on June 4, 1857 in Denmark, Lewis County, New York. He became a well-known citizen of nearby Martinburgh, where he served the community as a physician, member of the board of supervisors and county treasurer. He died there on June 8, 1888 at the age of sixty years, four months and two days. His obituary states that he had been a resident of the village for twenty-eight years, and was survived by a wife, son and daughter
BibliographyAgnes Halsey and Louis C. Jones, New-Found Folk Art of the Young Republic, 1960,(exh.cat., pp. 21-22, no. 37, illus. as fig. 37).
Paul S. D'Ambrosio and Charlotte M. Emans, "Folk Art's Many Faces: Portraits in the New York State Historical Association," Cooperstown: NYSHA, 1987, pp. 207-208.
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