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Exhibition History“The Flowering of American Folk Art,” M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, June 24, 1974 – September 15, 1974; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, April 22, 1974 – June 2, 1974; The Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY, February 1, 1974 – March 24, 1974.
Artist
Unidentified Artist
(American)
Blue House
Date1847
DimensionsFramed: 19 × 21 15/16 × 1 1/2 in. (48.3 × 55.7 × 3.8 cm)
Sight: 12 1/4 × 15 1/4 in. (31.1 × 38.7 cm)
Object numberN0116.1961
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextThis fanciful, decorative painting combines two valued 19th century skills--watercolor and calligraphy--into a bold abstraction of a house with moon, sun, and stars above. The house is painted in a rigid, angular style that resembles cross-stitching, and the tree branches are executed in calligraphic flourishes. It seems likely that this work was done in a female seminary, where such skills were taught.Exhibition History“The Flowering of American Folk Art,” M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, June 24, 1974 – September 15, 1974; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, April 22, 1974 – June 2, 1974; The Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY, February 1, 1974 – March 24, 1974.
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