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Ruth Whittier Shute

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Ruth Whittier Shute (1803 - 1882) was active/lived in New Hampshire, Kentucky.  Ruth Shute is known for Naive portrait painting of small-town residents.

An itinerant, collaborative portrait painter with her husband, Ruth Shute was born in Dover, New Hampshire, and was married in 1827 to artist Samuel Addison Shute, a doctor and portrait painter.  They settled in Weare, New Hampshire but traveled widely to paint portraits.  They would advertise in local papers that they were available for portrait painting and stay as long as the commissions lasted.

In 1833, in Peterborough, New Hampshire, they finished eighteen portraits in thirty-one days.  About twenty-five portraits are extant from the early painting period of 1827 to 1831, fifteen by him and ten by Ruth.

The earliest signed portrait by both of them was for the Atkinson family in Lowell, Massachusetts, and it is dated 1831.  They combined media in their portraits, using watercolor, pencil, gouache, pastel and gilt-foil.

After her husband's death in 1836, she returned to New Hampshire where she continued to travel and paint   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1719 characters.]  Artist bio

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4 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Ruth Whittier Shute
Magazine Article Date Author Color
The Magazine Antiques A "woman could paint a likeness?" January 2009 Payne, Michael R.; Suzanne Rudnick Payne Yes
The Magazine Antiques American Collection in New Jersey April 2005 Spriggs, Remi Yes
Southwest Art Art Events-Coast to Coast January 2004 Osterman, Julie Yes
American Art Review A Good Likeness/Naive Portraiture December 1994 Prince, Dan Yes
14 Book References for Ruth Whittier Shute
Year Author Title Pages Color
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1981 Rumford, Beatrix American Folk Portraits from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center 295 Yes
1980 Lipman, Jean and Tom Armstrong American Folk Painters of Three Centuries 233 Yes
1979 Bishop, Robert Folk Painters of America 255 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1975 Ebert, John and Katherine American Folk Painters 225 Yes
1970 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Plain and Fancy A Survey of American Folk Art 72 Yes
1966 National Gallery of Art 101 American Primitive Watercolor And Pastels
(Exhibition catalog)		 141 Yes
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