A View of Mr. Joshua Winsor's House & c.1793–179523 1/4 x 27 1/2 "
Frame: 28 x 32 1/8 x 2 "Oil on canvas, in original painted wood frameGift of Ralph Esmerian2013.1.190Score: The two story brick-red clapboard Winsor homestead with its interesting gambrel ell and dentil moulded pediment is depicted along with the wharves, storerooms, and commercial vessels, two of which fly the American flag, owned by Joshua Winsor whose three-quarter likeness appears in the lower right portion of the scene. As befits a man of property, Mr. Winsor holds a key ring and it's interesting to note that this likeness corresponds to his large scale portrait also taken by Hathaway. Two men in colonial costume can be seen sailing in the harbor. One of them holds a shotgun aimed at a flock of geese flying above the house; at least one bird has been hit and is falling toward the water. Outside the white and blue fence surrounding the Winsor House, a woman carrying buckets and a young boy can be seen, perhaps a reference to Joshua's son, Seth, who would have been thirteen years of age at the time the painting was commissioned. A variety of shipping appears in the distance. The whole scene is composed above a painted black border with the title limned in white in a fine hand. Original frame.15475639442013.24.19P1.2001.53Rufus HathawayPaintingsThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.Along bottom in white paint: "A View of Mr. Joshua Winsor's House & co.DuxburyDuxburyUnited StatesMassachusettsPaintingsDuxburyRobert Bishop, "Folk Painters of America," E.P. Dutton, New York 1979, pl. 6.
Robert Bishop and Jacqueline Marx Atkins, "Folk Art in American Life," Viking Studio Books, Penguin Books USA, 1995.
Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, commemorative volume, 1987, illustrated
"Winthrop Chandler and his Contemporaries," David A. Schorsch, September 14-November 4, 1989, #17.
Young America: A Folk Art History. Jean Lipman, Elizabeth V. Warren and Robert Bishop. New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Museum of American Folk Art, 1986, illustrated fig. 1.6, p.18
Jean Lipman, Tom Armstrong, eds. "American Folk Painters of Three Centuries," 1980, ill. p. 39.
Nina Fletcher Little, "Paintings by New England Provincial Artists, 1775-1800," 1976, ill. 14.
Nina Fletcher Little, "Country Arts in Early American Homes," 1975, ill. #43.
Nina Fletcher Little, "Rufus Hathaway," in "Art in America," Vol. 42, no.3 (October 1954).
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