Black, Mary (Introduction) and Barbara C. and Lawrence B. Holdridge — Ammi Phillips: Portrait Painter 1788-1865

New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1969. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Cranberry-red cloth, white & color illustrated dust jacket, 56 pp. 3 color, 77 bw plates. Published to accompany a 1968 exhibition in New York: Museum of Folk Art and one other location. Spotlights folk painter Ammi Phillips's work. Catalogue lists 309 portraits, arranged in chronological order from 1811-1860. Includes an 11-page introduction, a four-page chronology of the artist's life and work, alphabetical list of identified subjects of Ammi Phillips' portraits, photos of inscriptions on the portraits, and a bibliography. Includes three full-page color illustrations. VG/G+. Tape repair at head of spine on price clipped jacket, a few nicks around edges and general rubbing/toning. Interior clean and unmarked other than a gallery stamp inside front cover.