Religious Text1820–1835Sheet: 8 1/8 x 4 1/2 " (20.6 x 11.4 cm)
Frame: 13 3/4 x 10 3/8 x 3/4 " (34.9 x 26.4 x 1.9 cm)Watercolor and ink on paperMuseum purchase with partial funds provided by Becky and Bob Alexander, Lucy and Mike Danziger, Jane and Gerald Katcher, Donna and Marvin Schwartz, Kristy and Steve Scott, and an anonymous donor2014.1.50fraktur depicting in profile a lady facing left, wearing a yellow dress, necklace, earrings and red shoes, in her right hand she holds a flower, flanked by stylized tulip and flower border in column L and R. All above an inscription.1547393875P1.2001.217John Van MinianBooks/Manuscripts/Information ArtifactsThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.In script: "Supreme eternal uncreated mind/Lord of the world and parent of man kind/thou God of power of wisdom and of love/each perfect gift descends from thee above"
A 155United StatesUnited StatesPennsylvaniaMarylandWorks on PapereMuseum - Collection HighlightsInfo only: Beatrix T. Rumford, ed., American Folk Paintings: Paintings and Drawings Other Than Portraits from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988), p316
Info only: Russell D. and Corinne P. Earnest, Papers for Birth Dayes: Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners, vol. II (East Berlin, Pa.: Russell D. Earnest Associates, 1997), p777
Similar: Mary Black and Jean Lipman, American Folk Painting (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1966), p192, no. 176, illus p 198.Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgActive c. 1791 (AARFAC); active c. 1805-1842, work distinctive for liberal use of people, patriotic symbols, large neat handwriting in English and German (Earnest)P1.2001.21718201835 2014 1 5 Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgActive c. 1791 (AARFAC); active c. 1805-1842, work distinctive for liberal use of people, patriotic symbols, large neat handwriting in English and German (Earnest)