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Child in Red with Whip
Child in Red with Whip
Attributed to (active 1837-1856)

Child in Red with Whip

Datec. 1845
DimensionsSight: 26 3/8 × 21 1/4 in. (67 × 54 cm)
Object numberN0388.1961
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by John Bigelow Taylor, NYC
Exhibition History“American Folk Art: Collection from the Fenimore Art Museum, Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France, January 25, 2001 – March 24, 2001.

“Little Women, Little Men: Folk Portraits of Children from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, September 22, 2006 – February 4, 2007; Addison Art Gallery: Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, October 29, 2005 – December 31, 2005; Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, July 2, 2005 – October 16, 2005.
BibliographyPaul S. D'Ambrosio and Charlotte M. Emans, "Folk Art's Many Faces: Portraits in the New York State Historical Association," Cooperstown, NYSHA, 1987, pp.95-96, illus. as no.53 on p.96.

Jacquelyn Oaks and Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed (Cooperstown, NY: Fenimore Art Museum, 2012).

Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester, The Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776-1876, (New York: Viking Press, 1974), p.36.

Agnes Jones and Louis C. Jones, New Found Folk Art of the Young Republic (exh. cat. Cooperstown, NY: New York State Historical Association, 1960), p.18-19.
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