[Rarebooks] FS: Four Books on Antique American Painted Furniture

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

Four Books on Antique American Painted Furniture: $75 for the lot.

This lot consists of:

"American Painted Furniture 1790-1880" by Cynthia V.A. Schaffner & Susan 
Klein (Clarkson Potter in 1997). A very well illustrated history of 
American painted furniture of the late 18th and 19th centuries, 
organized by locality. The text treats "high-style" furniture of Boston 
& Salem, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New York, and "country" furniture 
of New England, the Middle Atlantic, the South, and the Western 
frontier. Hardcover. 9"x11", 223 pages, color illustrations, dust 
jacket. Minor wear.

"American Painted Furniture, 1660-1880" by Dean A. Fales (E.P. Dutton: 
1972). An important reference work. Fales begins in the 17th century, 
when painted furniture was very popular (though not many original 
finishes survive), and continues through the 18th century, with side 
trips into japanning and Windsor chairs. Federal and Empire furniture 
are covered before the various Victorian styles are all examined. There 
are also discussions of Shaker furniture and Pennsylvania-German pieces. 
"This remains an excellent overview." (Ames). Hardcover. 8.5"x11", 299 
pages, 510 illustrations, some in color, dust jacket. Light wear.

"Women's Painted Furniture 1790-1830. American Schoolgirl Art" by Betsy 
Krieg Salm (University Press of New England: 2010). "Beautifully 
illustrated, comprehensive study of women's painted furniture, a 
long-lost art that sheds light on women's lives in the early republic. 
In this long-awaited tribute to women's painted furniture, author and 
artist Betsy Krieg Salm rediscovers a style of early American decorative 
art still largely unknown to curators, antique dealers, art historians, 
and the public. She documents the socioeconomic, cultural, and aesthetic 
history of the form, which includes such items as sewing and work boxes, 
face screens, and tables. Salm carefully chronicles the process itself, 
describing a selection of cabinetmakers, woods, varnishes, and paints, 
along with the specific tools and techniques used by women artists. Salm 
analyzes the styles, designs, and patterns of more than two hundred 
pieces. Treating these objects as documents of women's daily lives, she 
shows the close relationship between painted furniture motifs and those 
of needlework and other decorative arts of the period. Thanks to her 
scholarship, this art form may now receive the recognition it deserves 
in the broader genre of American women's art. Women's Painted Furniture 
presents a comprehensive collection of images, most of which are not 
available elsewhere. Primary sources include recipes, patterns, 
genealogies of artisans, chemical analyses of antiques, instructions in 
methods and technique, and the original, mainly English, sources of 
artistic inspiration for painters and needle workers." Hardcover. 
9"x11", 252 pages. 221 color and 47 black & white illustrations, dust 
jacket. Fine.

"Baltimore Painted Furniture 1800-1840" by William Voss Elder, III 
(Baltimore Museum of Art: 1972). The catalog to an important loan 
exhibition which drew on both private and public collections. "Baltimore 
painted furniture of the period 1800-1840 is a unique contribution to 
American cabinetmaking and was unparalleled in its own time by products 
of other major East coast cabinetmaking centers. Although in mahogany 
and other hardwood furniture Baltimore chairmakers and cabinetmakers 
followed the same sequence of style and decoration in the early 19th 
century as Philadelphia and New York, they continued to produce painted 
furniture on a scale not attained or perhaps not desired other American 
cabinetmaking centers where painted furniture simply did not exist in 
the quantity or quality of Baltimore". William Voss Elder contributes 
the introductory essay, and there is a checklist of cabinetmakers 
working in Baltimore in this period. Semowich 882. Softcover. 11"x9", 
132 pages, black & white illustrations. Covers a bit rubbed and worn.

The Four Books: $75

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