James Walter Folger (1851-1918) Oil on Canvas Old Mill Nantucket, signed and dated lower left Jas. Walter Folger, 1895, built in 1741, in molded gilt frame.
James Walter Folger (1851-1918) an artisan from Nantucket was mainly self-taught. He worked briefly in 1869 as a journeyman for a wood carver in Cambridge, Massachusetts and continued to create carved animal heads, ornamental carvings and historical dioramas upon his return to Nantucket. Folger was also a painter in oil and watercolors, creating historical scenes Nantucket.
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