Author: Rogoff, Bernadette M.
Title: Micah Williams, Portrait Artist
Description: Freehold, NJ, Monmouth Museum and Monmouth County Historical Association, 2013. Softcover. Black and green wraps with color illustration along cover edge. (6) 7-101 pp. Features many color illustrations. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Micah Williams: Portrait Artist," mounted by Monmouth County Historical Association, Freehold, New Jersey which opened to the public on May 19th, 2013. "The early twentieth century was exciting time for scholars in the fledgling American folk art field. Many researchers and collectors turned their attention to those artists who made their living traveling about, painting portraits of local residents in New England, the Mid-Atlantic region, and farther south. These itinerant folk artists, as they were described, had not attended formal art schools or received instruction from classically trained artists. Rather, they developed their own artistic skills through practice, enthusiasm, and perhaps a lesson or two from another folk artist. Early folk art enthusiasts closely examined the products of these artisan painters and combed surviving records, paged through newspapers, court documents and census records, and uncovered valuable information. Artists such as Erastus Salisbury Field, Ammi Phillips, John Brewster, Ruth Henshaw Bascom, and William Matthew Prior became celebrated and recognized for their achievements as portraitists. Each folk artist had a distinct style that could be recognized and used to identify other portraits by the same hand." - introductory paragraphs. VG .

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