Erastus’s work is defined by its folk art sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.

Woman with a Green Book (Louisa Gallond Cook)
Erastus Salisbury Field American, 1805–1900

Wheatfield
Georges Braque French, 1882-1963

Jonathan Henderson (1772-1833)
Robert Field American, c. 1769–1819

Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows: the Rainbow
David Lucas (English, 1802-1881) after John Constable (English, 1776-1837)

Moonrise
George Inness (American, 1825–1894)

Poppy Field (Giverny)
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

The Song of the Lark
Jules Breton (French, 1827–1906)

Portions of a Field Armor
Jacob Halder (English, 1558–1608) Royal Workshops of Greenwich, England

Field Armor for Man
South German, Nuremberg

Cupid's Hunting Fields
Sir Edward Burne-Jones English, 1833-1898

An Old Bridge at Salisbury
John Constable English, 1776-1837

Imogen
Erastus Dow Palmer American, 1817–1904 Cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne French, 1810–1892

Field Armor
German, Augsburg

Armor for Field and Tournament
Jörg T. Sorg, the Younger, after German, Augsburg, active 1502-1542

Carolyn Even Gledhill
W. Edwin Gledhill American, 1888–1976

A Mounted Officer
Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (French, 1848–1912)

Armor for the Field and Tourney
South German or Austrian (Probably Innsbruck)

Composite Field Armor
Italian, Milan

Untitled
Lois Field American, born 1923

O'Hare Field Master Plan, Illinois, Presentation Drawing, Aerial View
Ralph Burke Associates American, fl. c. 1945 William K. Kaiser, delineator American, 20th century