Wallace Nutting Seating
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 North American American Classical Wallace Nutting Seating
Rush
1920s American American Craftsman Vintage Wallace Nutting Seating
Wood
1920s American American Craftsman Vintage Wallace Nutting Seating
Wood
1920s American American Craftsman Vintage Wallace Nutting Seating
Wood
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Wallace Nutting Seating
Maple
20th Century American Country Wallace Nutting Seating
Maple
19th Century English Victorian Antique Wallace Nutting Seating
Yew
Early 19th Century British Antique Wallace Nutting Seating
Elm
Late 20th Century Philippine Wallace Nutting Seating
Upholstery, Rattan, Ebony
Early 20th Century Dutch Shaker Wallace Nutting Seating
Wicker, Wood
Late 19th Century American Shaker Antique Wallace Nutting Seating
Wood, Paint
Early 20th Century American Victorian Wallace Nutting Seating
Walnut
19th Century English Antique Wallace Nutting Seating
Walnut
19th Century American Country Antique Wallace Nutting Seating
Rush, Wood, Pine
2010s Canadian American Craftsman Wallace Nutting Seating
Wood
20th Century Wallace Nutting Seating
Bentwood
Early 20th Century North American American Craftsman Wallace Nutting Seating
Wood
Early 20th Century American American Colonial Wallace Nutting Seating
Maple