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"Wall Art Revisited: Painted Interiors and Decorative Woodwork"What to do with our walls? This is a question that has beguiled home owners since the time of cave dwellers. The art of early America was domestic art – furniture, silver, ceramics, and textiles. The uses of paint for decorative purpose and embellishment, above and beyond the plain surface coatings used to protect or conceal the surface of inexpensive domestic woods, emerged steadily during the 18th century, blossoming into ornamental traditions that were complex, diverse and often astonishing. This program honors the legacy of two early New England preservationists and contemporaries William Warren (1912-1998) and Nina Fletcher Little (1903-1993), who preserved, documented publicized and collected evidence of an important but then largely unknown aspect of American art. This program surveys the remarkable range of interior wall treatments practiced by early New England’s artisan decorators, highlight important new work in the technical preservation of decorated walls and conclude with a survey of wall treatments during the 19th and 20th centuries and a celebration of the resurgence of custom wall and mural art in contemporary life. To book a feature length version of this program contact - [email protected]
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Wall Art Revisited: Painted Interiors and Decorative Woodwork
Joseph Pitkin House, East Hartford, CT c 1755
Seth Wetmore House, Middletown, CT (now at Wadsworth Atheneum)
Overmantel paintings, 18th century
Overmantel painting from John Potter house, S Kingston, RI (now at Newport Historical Society)
Warner House, Portsmouth, NH
Indian Kings Mural – c 1740
Evidence for exterior paint treatments, 18th century – Historic Deerfield
Introduction of wallpaper
Portrait of an American Artist
Thomas Ware
Woodstock VT
(Woodstock Historical Society)
Most American painters and artists painted anything that paid
Fireboards
Rufus Porter – An American Icon
Caroll House, Springfield, NY
(now at Winterthur Museum)
Raising the bar - American Victorian interiors
Shard Villa, Salisbury, VT - 1874
Kimball-Jenkins Hse
Concord, NH
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, Norwalk, CT
Paint Analysis and Archaeology – Current Methods• Examination with a portable microscope before and during sampling
• Sampling with a microscalpel (samples should contain substrates), samples as small as 200 microns
• Storage of samples in labeled bags
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Sol LeWitt at MassMOCA – America exuberant wall art goes global
Wall Art Revisited: Painted Interiors and Decorative Woodwork
by Bill Hosley, Terra Firma Northeast – [email protected]
Special thanks to Mary Lou Davis, Susan Buck, Glenn Andres & David Wiggins