Susan Waters folk portrait
Portrait of a Young Boy and His Dog: Possibly James Lee Harrison
Attributed to Susan Waters (1823-1900), Probably New York State or Pennsylvania
c. 1845
Oil on canvas
42” x 30”; in a period frame, 48 ½” x 37 ¼”
Provenance: Collection of Peter Tillou
Exhibition: Storrs, Connecticut, The William Benton Museum of Art, and traveling, “Nineteenth-Century Folk Painting: Our Spirited National Heritage,” 23 April 1973 – 1974.
Literature: Tillou, Nineteenth-Century Folk Painting: Our Spirited National Heritage (1973), p. 178, fig. no. 126.