About This Artwork

Decorated by Uriah Dyer
American, 1849-1927
Works by Silas Hoadley (clockmaker)
American, 1786-1870

Tall Case Clock, case made c. 1820, decoration 1884

Painted pine, gilded copper alloy, iron
h. 195.6 cm (77 in.)
Signed on face: "S. HOADLEY, PLYMOUTH"; signed on case: "U.N. Dyer, House & Sign Painter. No. Appleton"
Bessie Bennett, Laura T. Magnuson and Wendell Fentress Ott endowments, 1996.438

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Kevin Kleinbardi, “Hoadley Tallcase tops Jewell’s July Sale,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly (Aug. 17, 1990), p. 52 (ill.).

Phoebe Nichols, “Mark Jewell’s Summer Auction,” Maine Antique Digest 18, 9 (Sept. 1990), p. 26D (ill.).

Mark Sisco, “Appleton, Main, Folk Artist Uriah Dyer,” Maine Antique Digest 20, 1 (Jan. 1992), p. 2E (ill.).

Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 231-33, no. 106.

Ownership History

Dr. Phineas A. Crooker, Washington, Maine, by 1884; by descent to Ruth Crooker, Maine, by 1990; Mark Jewell, Auctioneer, Gray, Maine, 1990; Charles Buckley, Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, 1990; Peter Sawyer Antiques, Exeter, New Hampshire, 1996; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.