Anne Phelps
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Artist Avon Neal and photographer Ann Parker were a husband-and-wife duo interested in vernacular or everyday art forms. For A Portfolio of Rubbings from Early American Stone Sculpture, Neal and Parker traveled across New England to examine and preserve the imagery and epitaphs inscribed on graveyard headstones, made by unknown Puritan sculptors. Through the inscriptions, we can follow the political climate, linguistic developments, and the advancement of the form itself. These tombstones were exposed to the elements and rapidly deteriorating; the rubbings preserve images and lives that otherwise would be lost to time.
Caption
Ann Parker; Avon Neal American Contemporary. Anne Phelps, 1963. Stone rubbing in crayon on paper, sheet: 22 13/16 × 33 7/8 in. (57.9 × 86 cm) image: 18 1/4 × 28 1/8 in. (46.4 × 71.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 64.19.14. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 64.19.14_acetate_bw.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Title
Anne Phelps
Date
1963
Medium
Stone rubbing in crayon on paper
Classification
Dimensions
sheet: 22 13/16 × 33 7/8 in. (57.9 × 86 cm) image: 18 1/4 × 28 1/8 in. (46.4 × 71.4 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right in graphite: "Ann Parker/Avon Neal"
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left in graphite: " Anne Phelps, Windsor, Vermont 1797. Large Portfolio 11/50"
Credit Line
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Accession Number
64.19.14
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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