{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"6"},"altNumsArchivespace":{"label":"ArchiveSpace","value":"P2.1984.001"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"The American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Ralph Esmerian"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1835"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2001    37    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2001.37.1"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Oil on canvas"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Vicinity of Amenia"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/2849/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"2849"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Vicinity of Amenia"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Despite the serenity of hundreds of sitters painted by Ammi Phillips, the artist\u2019s life was dramatically bookended by almost incomprehensible events: he was born in the optimistic dawn of the newly formed United States of America, and he died with the country riven by the Civil War. The name \u201cAmmi\u201d derives from the biblical book of Hosea and means \u201cmy people.\u201d His works paint a picture of national unity through incisive portraits of friends and neighbors, primarily in the border areas of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York.Phillips\u2019s career is characterized by dramatic shifts in palette and style, from the light-suffused visions of c. 1815 to the color-saturated and stiffly staged portraits of the 1850s and \u201960s. Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog was painted during the artist\u2019s so-called Kent period, which lasted from about 1829 through 1838. It is one of several portraits of children wearing similar red dresses and seated with a small dog by their feet. One cannot regard the group without equating their geometric precision and luminosity of large fields of pure color with religious art of the Middle Ages. The symbolic association of rare and costly colors with specific religious figures, such as vermilion used for the robes worn by Mary, is also echoed in this portrait. A clue to Phillips\u2019s professional longevity, even after the introduction of photography, may lie in his earliest known advertisement of 1810, wherein he promises to provide \u201ccorrect likenesses . . . in the prevailing fashion of the day,\u201d a pledge he was to fulfill for more than fifty years.Stacy C. Hollander, \u201cGirl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog,\u201d exhibition label for Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum. Stacy C. Hollander and Valérie Rousseau, curators. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2014.Object 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.org","Despite the serenity of hundreds of sitters painted by Ammi Phillips, the artist\u2019s life was dramatically bookended by almost incomprehensible events: he was born in the optimistic dawn of the newly formed United States of America, and he died with the country riven by the Civil War. The name \u201cAmmi\u201d derives from the biblical book of Hosea and means \u201cmy people.\u201d His works paint a picture of national unity through incisive portraits of friends and neighbors, primarily in the border areas of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York.Phillips\u2019s career is characterized by dramatic shifts in palette and style, from the light-suffused visions of c. 1815 to the color-saturated and stiffly staged portraits of the 1850s and \u201960s. 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The name \u201cAmmi\u201d derives from the biblical book of Hosea and means \u201cmy people.\u201d His works paint a picture of national unity through incisive portraits of friends and neighbors, primarily in the border areas of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York.Phillips\u2019s career is characterized by dramatic shifts in palette and style, from the light-suffused visions of c. 1815 to the color-saturated and stiffly staged portraits of the 1850s and \u201960s. Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog was painted during the artist\u2019s so-called Kent period, which lasted from about 1829 through 1838. It is one of several portraits of children wearing similar red dresses and seated with a small dog by their feet. One cannot regard the group without equating their geometric precision and luminosity of large fields of pure color with religious art of the Middle Ages. The symbolic association of rare and costly colors with specific religious figures, such as vermilion used for the robes worn by Mary, is also echoed in this portrait. A clue to Phillips\u2019s professional longevity, even after the introduction of photography, may lie in his earliest known advertisement of 1810, wherein he promises to provide \u201ccorrect likenesses . . . in the prevailing fashion of the day,\u201d a pledge he was to fulfill for more than fifty years.Stacy C. Hollander, \u201cGirl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog,\u201d exhibition label for Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum. Stacy C. Hollander and Valérie Rousseau, curators. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2014.Object 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.org","Despite the serenity of hundreds of sitters painted by Ammi Phillips, the artist\u2019s life was dramatically bookended by almost incomprehensible events: he was born in the optimistic dawn of the newly formed United States of America, and he died with the country riven by the Civil War. The name \u201cAmmi\u201d derives from the biblical book of Hosea and means \u201cmy people.\u201d His works paint a picture of national unity through incisive portraits of friends and neighbors, primarily in the border areas of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York.Phillips\u2019s career is characterized by dramatic shifts in palette and style, from the light-suffused visions of c. 1815 to the color-saturated and stiffly staged portraits of the 1850s and \u201960s. 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The artist provided validation for landed families living primarily in the border areas of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York, the portraits presenting a defense against the agrarian lifestyle that was slipping away with the encroachment of industrialization. They were to play a similar role in the modernist era of the early twentieth century, when such portraits once again provided a sense of historical heritage and artistic precedent for artists seeking an authentically American expression. A clue to Phillips\u2019s professional longevity, even after the introduction of photography, may lie in his earliest known advertisement of 1810, wherein he promises to provide \"correct likenesses \u2026 in the prevailing fashion of the day,\" a pledge he was to fulfill for more than fifty years.Stacy C. Hollander, \"Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog,\" exhibition copy for American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. 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