Tall Case Clock

Arts of the Americas

1820–84

Painted by Uriah Dyer
American, 1849–1927
Works by Silas Hoadley (clockmaker)
American, 1786–1870

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Uriah Dyer (Decorator)
Title: Tall Case Clock
Place: Maine (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1820–1884
Medium: Painted pine, gilded copper alloy, iron
Inscriptions: Signed on face: "S. HOADLEY, PLYMOUTH"; signed on case: "U.N. Dyer, House & Sign Painter. No. Appleton"
Dimensions: H.: 195.6 cm (77 in.)
Credit Line: Bessie Bennett, Laura T. Magnuson and Wendel Fentress Ott endowments
Reference Number: 1996.438
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Kevin Kleinbardi, “Hoadley Tallcase tops Jewell’s July Sale,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly (Aug. 17, 1990), 52 (ill.).
Phoebe Nichols, “Mark Jewell’s Summer Auction,” Maine Antique Digest 18, 9 (Sept. 1990), 26D (ill.).
Mark Sisco, “Appleton, Main, Folk Artist Uriah Dyer,” Maine Antique Digest 20, 1 (Jan. 1992), 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), 231–33, no. 106.
Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, “For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago,” (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012) no. 45.

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

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