Wallace Nutting Art
With a career of producing hand-tinted photographs of New England scenes distributed as prints, Wallace Nutting was widely known in the early 20th century when millions of copies of his work were sold. Of the hundreds of professional photographers who were active in the pictorialist genre and competing for the tourist trade, Nutting developed what was by far the largest and most prominent operation, employing nearly 200 colorists, framers and salesmen. He was also a craftsperson, writer and lecturer, and began his career as a Congregational minister. Retiring from the ministry in 1904, he moved from Cranston, Rhode Island, to New York City for a year, then to Southbury, Connecticut, from 1905 to 1912, followed by a move to Framingham, Massachusetts, where he lived for the remainder of his life. Nutting also built furniture, doing reproductions of colonial pieces, including chairs and cabinets. His writings included 20 books such as Old New England Pictures, Furniture of the Pilgrim Century and Virginia Beautiful. Nutting signed very few of the pictures he sold. Because of the sheer number sold, ten million by his own account, it would have been difficult in light of ill health and his interest in publishing and furniture-making for him to sign them all. This accounts for the various signature styles that can be found. Collectors have learned to recognize an authorized signature as well as Wallace Nutting's own. Signature styles can date a picture, and the combination of other elements can authenticate a signature.
Early 20th Century Photorealist Wallace Nutting Art
Oil, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Early 20th Century Wallace Nutting Art
Photographic Paper
Early 20th Century Photorealist Wallace Nutting Art
Photographic Paper
Early 20th Century Naturalistic Wallace Nutting Art
Lithograph
1880s Naturalistic Wallace Nutting Art
Lithograph
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Wallace Nutting Art
Lithograph
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Wallace Nutting Art
Lithograph
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Wallace Nutting Art
Lithograph
2010s Photorealist Wallace Nutting Art
Emulsion, Photogram, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Etching, M...
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Wallace Nutting Art
Lithograph
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Wallace Nutting Art
Lithograph
Early 20th Century Modern Wallace Nutting Art
Photographic Paper
2010s Photorealist Wallace Nutting Art
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Co...
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Wallace Nutting Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Photorealist Wallace Nutting Art
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
2010s Photorealist Wallace Nutting Art
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Photographic Pa...