Wallace Nutting

Wallace Nutting

:"For the U.S. Army general, see Wallace H. Nutting"
thumb|right|Nutting's 17th century Brewster Chair [">cite book
title=Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620-1720, Including Colonial Utensils and ...
author=Wallace Nutting
year=1921
publisher=Marshall Jones company
isbn=
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=K3MvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA182&dq=%22brewster+chair%22#PPA182,M1] Wallace Nutting (1861 - 1941) was a U.S. minister, photographer, artist, and antiquarian, who is most famous for his pictures . He also was an accomplished author, lecturer, furniture maker —some of whose reproductions pass as antiques— antiques expert and collector. His atmospheric photographs helped spur the Colonial Revival style.

He was born in Rockbottom, Massachusetts, on Sunday, November 17, 1861. He was descended from John Nutting, who came from England in 1639 and was killed by Indians during a raid against Groton, Massachusetts. The Indians severed John Nutting's head and put it on a pole to discourage others from settling in the area.

Wallace Nutting studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University, Hartford Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary. He graduated from Harvard with the class of 1887. On June 5, 1888 he married Mariet Griswold in Buckland, Massachusetts. They had no children.

Wallace Nutting started taking pictures in 1899 while on long bicycle rides in the countryside. In 1904 he opened the Wallace Nutting Art Prints Studio on East 23rd Street in New York. After a year he moved his business to a farm in Southbury, Connecticut. He called this place "Nuttinghame". In 1912 he moved the photography studio to Framingham, Massachusetts, in a home he called "Nuttingholme". Nutting authored several books about the scenic beauties of New England, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. In the peak of his business he employed about two-hundred colorists. By his own account, Wallace Nutting sold ten million pictures.

Wallace Nutting died at his home at 24 Vernon St., Framingham, Massachusetts on Saturday, July 19, 1941, at age 79. The body was taken to Augusta, Maine for burial.

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External links

* [http://www.wallacenuttinglibrary.com/wnport02a.gifphoto of Wallace Nutting]
* [http://www.wallacenutting.com/ The Wallace Nutting Center]
* [http://www.wallacenuttinglibrary.com/ The Wallace Nutting Library]
* [http://www.wallacenuttinglibrary.com/wnp02530.jpgexample of Wallace Nutting's photography]
* [http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0653.htm The Winterthur Library] Overview of an archival collection on Wallace Nutting.


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