Word: ammi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Ammi Cutter '22, former associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, Doctor of Laws...
...collectors tend to be young, well educated, discriminating, and they know what they want. Many of them want Americana, probably the fastest growing segment of the New York antiques market. Prices have skyrocketed. Twelve years ago, a pair of paintings by Ammi Phillips, a 19th century naive artist, sold for $10,000. Last April a pair of Phillips paintings went for $44,000 at auction ?and were reportedly resold within a month for twice that amount...
...Holy Family...these call insistently for the observers to immerse themselves in the world set up by the painting, to enter, look, note and depart. No one observant could refuse them. But there are new discoveries here, too--and they are perhaps even more intriguing, because less famous. Ammi Philips's Portrait of Harriet Leavins (1815) strikingly modern in its primitiveness; or Ingres's Study for Andromeda, a fascinating closeup of a lone marble woman that lets you see how Ingres sculpted his figures to achieve that smooth sensuality of form; or Monet's Fish (1870) whose glinting gold...