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//Erastus Salisbury Field//
- Known as: Folk and naïve (primitive) artist
- Born: 1805, Leverett, Massachusetts, US
- Died: 1900
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Erastus Salisbury Field's parents sent him to New York when he was 19 to study with
the painter Samuel F.B. Morse. The lessons lasted no more than a year before he
was back in Massachusetts.
In 1826, he was travelling through central Massachusetts and eastern New York looking for
portrait commissions.
He married Phebe Gilmur in Ware, Massachusetts in 1831, and throughout the decade he worked in
the Connecticut - Massachusetts area. By the 1840s he was in New York, occasionally exhibiting at the American Institute, until 1848 when he was called
back to Massachusetts. He found work in Palmer and settled in the village of Sunderland in 1859 when his
wife died.
He died at the age of 95.
Trivia:
- He had a twin sister
- His work is in the collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, US
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