Artists--Connecticut
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Joanne and Frederick Siegmund Papers related to Philip Pellegrino
Collection — Box AFAM-1: [Barcode: DC1]
Identifier: A0061
Abstract
The Joanne and Frederick Siegmund Papers Related to Philip Pellegrino contains images of the artist’s work, sales records, personal notes, inventories, artist biographies, news stories, and public access video footage of Philip Pellegrino (1919-1997) between 1980-2013. Born in Montreal, Pellegrino first learned to make leather sculpture art while working with his uncle as a cobbler. He later moved to Torrington, Connecticut where he opened his own shoe repair business and continued to...
Dates:
1980-10-19 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1991
Reuben Moulthrop Wax Portrait
Item — Box AFAM OS-3: [Barcode: OS3]
Identifier: A0048
Abstract
Wax portrait of Reverend Naphtali Daggett (1727-1780), Professor of Yale University in 1780. Done in 1797 at New Haven Connecticut by Reuben Moulthrop of East Haven, Connecticut. The artist is known to have worked in wax and painted portraits of several Yale University presidents of the period. This silhouette portraits descended in the Daggett family through the years before being donated to the American Folk Art Museum.
Dates:
1797