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
