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BibliographyPaul S. D'Ambrosio and Charlotte M. Emans, "Folk Art's Many Faces: Portraits in the New York State Historical Association," Cooperstown, New York 1987, pp.61-62, illus. as no. 28 on p. 61.
Aimee E. Newell, “The Art of Flowering: Nineteenth-Century Iroquois Beadwork in the Collection of Old Sturbridge Village,” in Piecework (March/April 2002), illus. on p.53.
Eye of the Collector: Works from the Lipman Collection of American Art (exh. cat. Arizona State University Art Museum, 1999).
Jean Lipman, Robert Bishop, Elizabeth V. Warren, and Sharon L. Eisenstate, Five Star Folk Art: One Hundred American Masterpieces (New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the Museum of American Folk Art, 1990).
Gail and Norbert H. Savage and Esther Sparks, Three New England Watercolor Painters (exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1974), pp.22-41.
Robert Doty, By Good Hands: New Hampshire Folk Art (exh. cat. University Press of New England, 1989).
Attributed to
Joseph H. Davis
(active 1832 - 1837)
Related Person
Mary D. Varney
(b. 1814)
Mary D. Varney
Date1835
DimensionsSight: 11 3/8 × 9 in. (28.9 × 22.9 cm)
Object numberN0198.1951
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Mrs. Mable Smith
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextThe portrait of lovely twenty-one-year old Mary D. Varney is one of several single-figure compositions of young women by Davis. Other than the information recorded by Davis below the drawing, little is known about Varney except that she was the child of Miles and Jane Varney who were married in Rochester, New Hampshire, on October 7, 1807.BibliographyPaul S. D'Ambrosio and Charlotte M. Emans, "Folk Art's Many Faces: Portraits in the New York State Historical Association," Cooperstown, New York 1987, pp.61-62, illus. as no. 28 on p. 61.
Aimee E. Newell, “The Art of Flowering: Nineteenth-Century Iroquois Beadwork in the Collection of Old Sturbridge Village,” in Piecework (March/April 2002), illus. on p.53.
Eye of the Collector: Works from the Lipman Collection of American Art (exh. cat. Arizona State University Art Museum, 1999).
Jean Lipman, Robert Bishop, Elizabeth V. Warren, and Sharon L. Eisenstate, Five Star Folk Art: One Hundred American Masterpieces (New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the Museum of American Folk Art, 1990).
Gail and Norbert H. Savage and Esther Sparks, Three New England Watercolor Painters (exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1974), pp.22-41.
Robert Doty, By Good Hands: New Hampshire Folk Art (exh. cat. University Press of New England, 1989).
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