Portrait of a Woman, possibly Caroline Danforth Webster1832Frame: 29 x 25 x 1 1/4 "Oil on canvasGift of Mary Black in memory of Thomas G. Rizzo1982.1.101531551383Ruth W. ShutePaintingsThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.WarnerWarnerUnited StatesNew HampshirePaintingsWarnerAntiques, Sept. 1985. advertisement, Frank and Barbara
Pollack, p.401
Antiques, Sept. 1982. "American Folk Paintings from the
Collection of Dr. Arthur and Sybil Kern," p.566
Biographical information:
American Folk Painters of Three Centuries. "Ruth W. and
Samuel A. Shute," Helen Kellogg. pp. 164-170
Antiques World, Dec, 1978. "One Painter of Painters,
Lost and Found," Helen Kellogg. pp. 36-47
Treasures from the Museum of American Folk Art,
AbbevilleportraitObject information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgThis portrait was received with an ambiguous identification: either Caroline Danforth Webster of Warner, NH or Caroline Danforth Warner of Webster, NH. No Webster, NH, has been located but according to Helen Kellogg, Warner, NH is found along the stagecoach route that would have serviced the areas in which the Shutes are known to have painted. Danforth is a common name in the area but a check of New Hampshire Vital Records turned up only one mention of a Caroline Danforth who married a Webster: George Webster of Gilford married Caroline Danforth on April 18, 1841. This has presented the further problem of attribution: is it a joint effort by the Shutes or was it painted by Mrs. Shute alone, as Mary Black suggests. Helen Kellogg feels that it may have been an early effort in oil by both Shutes and that both hands can be seen in the execution. Starting from 1833, a group of at least 39 oil portraits was painted and consecutively numbered, but this painting probably predates this group, judging by the difficulties experienced by the artists in handling the medium. The first oil painting signed by Mrs. Shute was painted in 1833 and she continued painting in oil, achieving an increasingly academic approach, until 1839, three years after her husband's death.18321832 1982 1 1 portraitObject information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgThis portrait was received with an ambiguous identification: either Caroline Danforth Webster of Warner, NH or Caroline Danforth Warner of Webster, NH. No Webster, NH, has been located but according to Helen Kellogg, Warner, NH is found along the stagecoach route that would have serviced the areas in which the Shutes are known to have painted. Danforth is a common name in the area but a check of New Hampshire Vital Records turned up only one mention of a Caroline Danforth who married a Webster: George Webster of Gilford married Caroline Danforth on April 18, 1841. This has presented the further problem of attribution: is it a joint effort by the Shutes or was it painted by Mrs. Shute alone, as Mary Black suggests. Helen Kellogg feels that it may have been an early effort in oil by both Shutes and that both hands can be seen in the execution. Starting from 1833, a group of at least 39 oil portraits was painted and consecutively numbered, but this painting probably predates this group, judging by the difficulties experienced by the artists in handling the medium. The first oil painting signed by Mrs. Shute was painted in 1833 and she continued painting in oil, achieving an increasingly academic approach, until 1839, three years after her husband's death.