Record Details
Portrait of John Scholl
Artist
Artist unidentified
Datec. 1900
Place/RegionGermania, Pennsylvania, United States
MediumPhotograph in gilded wood frame
Dimensions18 1/2 × 12 1/2"
Credit LineGift of Cordelia Hamilton, Dr. and Mrs. Lester Blum, Murray Eig, and William Engvick
Accession number1967.1.2
CopyrightThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.
DescriptionThis photograph of John Scholl, taken when he was approximately eighty years old, shows him seated on a wood pile at his farmstead in Germania, Pensylvania.
Elizabeth V. Warren and Stacy C. Hollander, "Photograph of John Scholl," Expressions of a New Spirit: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of American Folk Art (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 1989), 111
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Artist unidentified
c. 1880-1900
2008.10.1
