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One of America's most notable nineteenth-century naive portraitists, Ammi Phillips spent a lifetime painting as many as 2,000 portraits, 500 of which can be officially attributed to his hand. His styles and painting directions varied throughout his impressive career, from light pastel images to deepened color with exquisite costume detailing, to his later works, which were clearly influenced by the recent invention of the daguerreotype.
Some of our customer favorites by Ammi Phillips are those of the couple's he painted. They look quite distinguished hung together as gallery wraps or mounted in the same frame and hung side by side.
“Ammi,” which appropriately means “my people,” painted up and down the east coast of the United States. At one point in 1965 it was realized by Barbara and Larry Holdridge along with the help of art historian Mary C. Black, that a series of paintings previously believed to be completed by an unknown artist, then given the nicknames of Kent Limner and Border Limner, were indeed paintings by Phillips from various points of his career. The paintings previously given the artists pseudonym of Kent Limner are now considered works from his Kent period, and for the area of Kent, Connecticut where the paintings resurfaced at a 1924 summer antique fair.
Some of our all-time favorite Ammi Phillips portrayals originated during his Kent period and those are paintings of children in fine clothing with their pets. We offer prints of Girl in the Red Dress with Cat and Dog, which is the most iconic work from our entire folk art collection and the most famous work from his career.
Like so many artists before and after him, the first ever major exhibition of Ammi Phillips’ work was not until 1968, over a century after his death in 1865. The show took place at the Museum of American Folk Art, with numerous displays of his work since then. Currently his original paintings sell on the art market for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Don't have an extra $300,000 lying around? No worries! You can shop the complete a Philips print collection right at Encore Editions and find a much more affordable copy to enjoy for a lifetime.
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