The American Folk Art Museum special exhibition on painted furniture, “Surface Attraction: Painted Furniture from the Collection”.
Federal era painted wood sideboard table.
The transforming power of paint is dealt with. The Folk Art museum’s collections of painted furniture are especially rich in painted expressions on furniture that transcend utility through the masterful application of colorful paints and pigmented glazes in visually dynamic patterns.
Painted Side Chairs, circa 1830, Mass.
Various techniques were employed to achieve stunning paint effects, using a variety of tools to apply the paint. As the 18th and 19th centuries wore on painters of wood furniture in American increasingly specialised into this area alone and became separated from the other, canvas, painters.
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