Signed Wallace Nutting Hand Tinted Original Photograph

Pencil signed hand-colored photo by Wallace Nutting titled "Not One of the Four Hundred." This striking hand tinted photo captures the essence of how we all have felt at one time or another - “like the black sheep!”

Not being an expert on such things, I can only pass on research gathered so far on this piece. This may be circa. 1900 - 1910 [but definitely pre-1940]. It is in very good condition, with the colors being quite bright and the image being quite sharp.

It is pencil signed, both the signature and the title, and the image measures approximately 6” tall x 13 ½” wide . The piece is framed with what may be its original fram, and framed it measures approximately 16 ½” tall x 23 ¼” wide.

Wallace Nutting (1861 - 1941) was a U.S. minister, photographer, artist, and antiquarian, who is most famous for his pictures. He was also an accomplished author, lecturer, and furniture maker. His atmospheric photographs helped spur the Colonial Revival style. 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.

He had trained to be a minister and served some prestigious churches. Although a New Englander through and through, he did "go West" as many people did, and ended up for a time as pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church in Seattle. He went from there to Union Congregational in Providence, Rhode Island.

Finding the ministry too stressful, he was advised to find a different occupation. He had been "dabbling" in photography as a means of relaxation even before quitting the pulpit at Union, and so he turned to photography after he resigned. His platinotypes are primarily of New England scenery and the interiors of old New England homes with women situated close to the home and hearth. He
hired women to hand tint the photographs, and many of these women posed for him in the pictures as well. Many say that he never stopped preaching, and that his pictures have a definite message.

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 pictorials’ 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. 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.

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