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Masterworks: Ammi Phillips

The exhibition Recent Gifts highlights two new additions to the collection by the prolific nineteenth-century portrait painter Ammi Phillips (1788–1865). Stacy C. Hollander, chief curator and director of exhibitions, will use these early and late works by Phillips to illustrate his stylistic development over the course of more than fifty years.

This talented and versatile artist was the subject of a major exhibition at the museum in 1994, “Revisiting Ammi Phillips: Fifty Years of American Portraiture.” At the time, more than 700 paintings were recorded, providing the basis for a broad survey of the artist’s work over the course of decades. Until the mid-twentieth century his oeuvre was mistakenly attributed to two or more painters, the “Borden Limner” and the “Kent Limner” among them. Today we recognize that Phillips’s success lay in his ability to adapt to changing tastes as he portrayed communities of friends and neighbors along the bordering counties of New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.











When: Wed., Aug. 7, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Where: American Folk Art Museum
2 Lincoln Square
212-595-9533
Price: Free
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The exhibition Recent Gifts highlights two new additions to the collection by the prolific nineteenth-century portrait painter Ammi Phillips (1788–1865). Stacy C. Hollander, chief curator and director of exhibitions, will use these early and late works by Phillips to illustrate his stylistic development over the course of more than fifty years.

This talented and versatile artist was the subject of a major exhibition at the museum in 1994, “Revisiting Ammi Phillips: Fifty Years of American Portraiture.” At the time, more than 700 paintings were recorded, providing the basis for a broad survey of the artist’s work over the course of decades. Until the mid-twentieth century his oeuvre was mistakenly attributed to two or more painters, the “Borden Limner” and the “Kent Limner” among them. Today we recognize that Phillips’s success lay in his ability to adapt to changing tastes as he portrayed communities of friends and neighbors along the bordering counties of New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

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