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Independent Order of Odd Fellows Sign for Northern Light Lodge No. 121
Artist unidentified
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Independent Order of Odd Fellows Sign for Northern Light Lodge No. 121
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Sign for Northern Light Lodge No. 121
Artist unidentified
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Independent Order of Odd Fellows Sign for Northern Light Lodge No. 121 Artist unidentified Photo by José Andrés Ramírez
Record Details

Independent Order of Odd Fellows Sign for Northern Light Lodge No. 121

Date1890–1930
MediumReverse painting on glass
Dimensions22 × 20 × 3/4"
Credit LineGift of Kendra and Allan Daniel
Accession number2015.1.39
Description

This sign was used by Odd Fellows Northern Light Lodge No. 121 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to mark its meeting place. Similar painted glass panels were used in large lanterns to illuminate a lodge room. The sign employs the technique of reverse painting on glass, which was popular from the mid-nineteenth century both as an art form and for sign painting.

Stacy C. Hollander, "Independent Order of Odd Fellows Sign for Northern Light Lodge No. 121," exhibition label for Mystery and Benevolence: Masonic and Odd Fellows Folk Art from the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2016.

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