Artwork Title: Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog

Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog, 1830-1835

Ammi Phillips

Artwork Title: Girl in Red Dress with Cat and DogArtwork Title: Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog
The artist's most famous work is Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog, which is in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum in New York. The painting is one of a group of four portraits of children in vibrant red with a dog on the floor that Phillips produced while living in Dutchess County, New York, in the mid-1830s.[4] This iconic work is the only one that features a cat. The image is frequently reproduced and admired. It was featured on a United States postage stamp in 1998. Nicholas B.A. Nicholson wrote a novel told from the perspective of the depicted girl. Ken Johnson, an art critic for The New York Times, has repeatedly praised the picture. In a review of the American Folk Art Museum's exhibition Self-Taught Genius, Johnson contends that Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog is "one of the most beautiful paintings made by any American artist ever." Previously he described the work as "heartbreakingly lovely." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammi_Phillips)
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