{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"2223"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"The American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Bequest of Laura Harding"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1875"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"1995    12    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"1995.12.1"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Reverse painting on glass with \"tar\" wearing hat and striped shirt and holding large garland standing on horseback on one foot"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Reverse painting and foil on glass with ink and metallic paint"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":""},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/2570/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"2570"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Tinsel Painting: Horseback Rider"},"geographyCity":{"value":""},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Tinsel paintings are reverse paintings on glass, with foil applied behind unpainted areas to provide shimmering highlights when caught in the reflection of candle- or gaslight. American Victorian tinsel paintings flourished between the mid-1830s through around 1890, and the most common pictures were vases of flowers, in the tradition of theorem paintings. The heyday of tinsel painting occurred during the 1860s, spurred by the publication of Art Recreations by \u201cMme. L.B. Urbino, Professor Henry Day, and others,\u201d which gave instructions for thirty decorative techniques, including monochromatic drawings and theorem painting. J.E. Tilton & Co., Boston publisher, also offered supplies and kits for ornamental work, including stencil designs appropriate for Oriental painting, as tinsel painting was also known. Art Recreations thoroughly described each step in the process of tinsel painting. The design was traced onto prepared glass, and then lampblack was applied as an opaque filler outside the tracing. Details, such as veins on leaves and flowers, were inked in first. Then transparent oil paints were used for colored portions. Foil\u2014usually copper-colored remnants of tea or cigar packages\u2014was added last, behind the unpainted areas, and was attached with putty or more lampblack. This large-format tinsel painting depicts a tar engaged in stunt riding on a running horse. Although the maritime costume might date as early as the 1830s, the tinsel painting was probably done later, as this type of stunt riding imagery began to flourish in midcentury, inspired by traveling equestrian shows.Stacy C. Hollander, \"Tinsel Painting: Horseback Rider,\" in American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with American Folk Art Museum, 2001), 351.","Tinsel Painting","Tinsel paintings are reverse paintings on glass, with foil applied behind unpainted areas to provide shimmering highlights when caught in the reflection of candle- or gaslight. American Victorian tinsel paintings flourished between the mid-1830s through around 1890, and the most common pictures were vases of flowers, in the tradition of theorem paintings. The heyday of tinsel painting occurred during the 1860s, spurred by the publication of Art Recreations by \u201cMme. L.B. Urbino, Professor Henry Day, and others,\u201d which gave instructions for thirty decorative techniques, including monochromatic drawings and theorem painting. J.E. Tilton & Co., Boston publisher, also offered supplies and kits for ornamental work, including stencil designs appropriate for Oriental painting, as tinsel painting was also known. Art Recreations thoroughly described each step in the process of tinsel painting. The design was traced onto prepared glass, and then lampblack was applied as an opaque filler outside the tracing. Details, such as veins on leaves and flowers, were inked in first. Then transparent oil paints were used for colored portions. Foil\u2014usually copper-colored remnants of tea or cigar packages\u2014was added last, behind the unpainted areas, and was attached with putty or more lampblack. This large-format tinsel painting depicts a tar engaged in stunt riding on a running horse. Although the maritime costume might date as early as the 1830s, the tinsel painting was probably done later, as this type of stunt riding imagery began to flourish in midcentury, inspired by traveling equestrian shows.Stacy C. Hollander, \"Tinsel Painting: Horseback Rider,\" exhbition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander,  curator. 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The heyday of tinsel painting occurred during the 1860s, spurred by the publication of Art Recreations by \u201cMme. L.B. Urbino, Professor Henry Day, and others,\u201d which gave instructions for thirty decorative techniques, including monochromatic drawings and theorem painting. J.E. Tilton & Co., Boston publisher, also offered supplies and kits for ornamental work, including stencil designs appropriate for Oriental painting, as tinsel painting was also known. Art Recreations thoroughly described each step in the process of tinsel painting. The design was traced onto prepared glass, and then lampblack was applied as an opaque filler outside the tracing. Details, such as veins on leaves and flowers, were inked in first. Then transparent oil paints were used for colored portions. Foil\u2014usually copper-colored remnants of tea or cigar packages\u2014was added last, behind the unpainted areas, and was attached with putty or more lampblack. This large-format tinsel painting depicts a tar engaged in stunt riding on a running horse. Although the maritime costume might date as early as the 1830s, the tinsel painting was probably done later, as this type of stunt riding imagery began to flourish in midcentury, inspired by traveling equestrian shows.Stacy C. Hollander, \"Tinsel Painting: Horseback Rider,\" in American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with American Folk Art Museum, 2001), 351.","Tinsel Painting","Tinsel paintings are reverse paintings on glass, with foil applied behind unpainted areas to provide shimmering highlights when caught in the reflection of candle- or gaslight. American Victorian tinsel paintings flourished between the mid-1830s through around 1890, and the most common pictures were vases of flowers, in the tradition of theorem paintings. The heyday of tinsel painting occurred during the 1860s, spurred by the publication of Art Recreations by \u201cMme. L.B. Urbino, Professor Henry Day, and others,\u201d which gave instructions for thirty decorative techniques, including monochromatic drawings and theorem painting. J.E. Tilton & Co., Boston publisher, also offered supplies and kits for ornamental work, including stencil designs appropriate for Oriental painting, as tinsel painting was also known. Art Recreations thoroughly described each step in the process of tinsel painting. The design was traced onto prepared glass, and then lampblack was applied as an opaque filler outside the tracing. Details, such as veins on leaves and flowers, were inked in first. Then transparent oil paints were used for colored portions. Foil\u2014usually copper-colored remnants of tea or cigar packages\u2014was added last, behind the unpainted areas, and was attached with putty or more lampblack. This large-format tinsel painting depicts a tar engaged in stunt riding on a running horse. Although the maritime costume might date as early as the 1830s, the tinsel painting was probably done later, as this type of stunt riding imagery began to flourish in midcentury, inspired by traveling equestrian shows.Stacy C. Hollander, \"Tinsel Painting: Horseback Rider,\" exhbition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander,  curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.","PAINTING"]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1850"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1850\u20131875"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":[{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - Sunday, January 20, 2013","exhibitionEndISODate":"2013-01-20","exhibitionID":"150","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2012-09-12","exhibitionBeginDate":"2012","exhibitionTitle":"FOILED","exhibitionEndDate":"2013"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Thursday, August 8, 1996 - Sunday, December 29, 1996","exhibitionEndISODate":"1996-12-29","exhibitionID":"83","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1996-08-08","exhibitionBeginDate":"1996","exhibitionTitle":"American Expressions of Liberty","exhibitionEndDate":"1996"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - Sunday, September 2, 2012","exhibitionEndISODate":"2012-09-02","exhibitionID":"149","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2012-01-17","exhibitionBeginDate":"2012","exhibitionTitle":"JUBILATION an act of rejoicing | RUMINATION an act of contemplation","exhibitionEndDate":"2012"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Thursday, July 11, 2002 - Sunday, January 5, 2003","exhibitionEndISODate":"2003-01-26","exhibitionID":"73","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2002-07-11","exhibitionBeginDate":"2002","exhibitionTitle":"American Anthem","exhibitionEndDate":"2003"}]},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"21 3/8 x 27 1/4 \"Frame: 25 1/8 x 31 x 1 3/8 \""}}]}