Dower chest
The son of German immigrants, Christian Seltzer is considered to be the founder of the “Jonestown School” of chest makers. His decorative style was distinct yet variable. Many chest painters of this period used templates or repetitive designs, but his motifs rarely repeat, and he typically rendered vases and flowers freehand. The mottled background painting is a treatment suggestive of highly figured wood-graining and serves as a particularly effective ground to give emphasis to the arcaded panels surrounding the urn and stylized spiky floral motifs. The deep claret reddish-brown hue seen in the painted ornament on this chest was especially favored by the elder Seltzer.
Gary Wragg (1946 –)
Odkrijte abstrakciono umetnost umetnika no alternate name found (r. 1946), britanskega slikarja, znanega po slogu Color Field in prispevku k povojni abstrakciji. Njegova dela so v pomembnih zbirkah po vsem svetu.
Reading Public Museum (Reading, Združene države Amerike)
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O tem umetniškem delu
- Naslov: Dower chest
- Umetnik: Gary Wragg
- Leto: 1784
- Format: Landscape
- Status avtorskih pravic: Zavetno pod avtorsko pravico
- Kje je razstavljeno: Reading Public Museum
- Gibanje: Folk Art
- Kontekst korpusa: wood-grained techniques , wealth & storage
- Barvna paleta: Neutrals
- Ključne besede: jonestown school art , 1784 antique chest , christian seltzer


