Inhabiting Folk Portraits, Fruitlands Museum Reviewed by Stace Brandt

 

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Extrapolating from glinting eyes and smirking lips, Candice Smith Corby invents the perspectives of sitters from the Fruitlands Museum's collection of 19th-century middle-class portraiture. The portraits, though compelling, are no Sargents. Painted in "plain style" by itinerant artists who were paid by the hour, the sitters' and artists' identities are often little-known. (to view the full review please visit the link above0