Artist James Sanford Ellsworth (1802 - 1874)

Martha C. Parkins [Perkins?]

Datec. 1840

DimensionsSight: 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (8.3 × 7 cm)

Object numberN0064.1961(02)

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark

Photograph by Richard Walker

Exhibition History"The Paintings of James Sanford Ellsworth, Itinerant Folk Artist, 1802-1873," Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, VA, October 13, 1974 - December 1, 1974.
ProvenanceFound in Norwich, Connecticut; Claire Pinney, Stafford Springs, Connecticut; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lipman, Wilton, Connecticut; Mr. Stephen C. Clark, Sr., Cooperstown, New York
BibliographyLipman, Jean, "James Sanford Ellsworth, A Postscript," Art In America 32 (April 1944), checklist no. 22 and no. 23 on p.102.

Mitchell, Lucy B., "James Sanford Ellsworth, American Miniature Painter," Art in America 41 (Autumn 1953), checklist no. 76 and no.77 on p. 179.

Mitchell, Lucy B., "The paintings of James Sanford Ellsworth, Itinerant Folk Artist, 1802-1873." Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1974: 42-43, numbers 76 and 77, and illustrations 76 and 77.

D'Ambrosio, Paul S. and Charlotte M. Emans, "Folk Art's Many Faces: Portraits in the New York State Historical Association," Cooperstown, NY NYSHA, 1987, pp.69-70, illus. as no. 34 on p.70.

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