Record Details
Viola # 14
Steel-pen drawings were intendened as exercises to train students in the perfection of their handwriting, but the flourishes and strokes led to a calligraphic art called Spencerian drawing, after Platt Rogers Spencer (1800-1864), a well-known penmanship instructor. In this contemporary homage to ornamental writing, the adept artist combined delicate calligraphy with the more robust tinsel painting.
Lee Kogan, "Viola," FOILED: Tinsel Painting in America (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2013), 76
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