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 – wnhosley@snet.net

Special thanks to Mary Lou Davis, Susan Buck, Glenn Andres & David Wiggins