Later 19th C. Flowers in Urn Reverse Glass Tinsel Painting cut paer together with its stance

together with its stance

with thin cream lines around each square

which reads a bit green in some of the photos and a bit pink in others

I'd use it for serving a sliced pear and a bit of cheese along with a glass of wine

Pretty hard to turn away from this face

Later 19th C. Flowers in Urn Reverse Glass Tinsel Painting cut paer together with its stanceI recently spent a bunch of time going through the online collection of the American Folk Art Museum, which happens to have the largest collection of tinsel paintings anywhere, many of which were featured in a major 2013 exhibition there titled "Foiled." Looking at those examples got me thinking about, and paying more attention to, this particular form of reverse glass painting, in which crumpled pieces of metallic foil were applied behind unpainted