Skip to main content
“Little Women, Little Men: Folk Portraits of Children from Fenimore Art Museum,” Clark Institute, Williamstown, MA, September 22, 2006 – February 4, 2007; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, July 2, 2005 – October 16, 2005; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, October 29, 2005 – December 31, 2005.
"Asa Ames: Occupation Sculpturing," The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA, February 1, 2009 - December 31, 2009; American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY, April 8, 2008 - September 14, 2008.
Artist
Asa Ames
(1824 - 1851)
Head of a Boy
Date1847
DimensionsOverall: 17 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (44.5 × 41.9 × 24.1 cm)
Object numberN0402.1955
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
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 Fenimore Art Museum,” Clark Institute, Williamstown, MA, September 22, 2006 – February 4, 2007; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, July 2, 2005 – October 16, 2005; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, October 29, 2005 – December 31, 2005.
"Asa Ames: Occupation Sculpturing," The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA, February 1, 2009 - December 31, 2009; American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY, April 8, 2008 - September 14, 2008.
On View
Not on view
