Art
Painted Screen & The Painted Screens of Baltimore: An Urban Folk Art Revealed- Elaine Eff
- Item Number
- 159
- Estimated Value
- 150 USD
- Sold
- 55 USD to Mwator
- Number of Bids
- 2 - Bid History
Item Description
This signed copy of the 256 page full color book, The Painted Screens of Baltimore: An Urban Folk Art Revealed by Elaine Eff CGP ’75,’76 explores the history of painted window and door screens, A Baltimore tradition with roots in 1700s London and Victorian America and vibrant 21st century digital adoptions as well. Eff’s research began with a discovery in the NYSHA (Fenimore Museum) collections. Long synonymous with Baltimore rowhouses, painted screens offer privacy and ventilation to those on the inside, and an unexpected, scenic view to those on the outside.The Painted Screens of Baltimore examines this treasure of one of America's major cities, placing them in their proper art historical context through rigorous research and the endearing stories of local Baltimore artists.
Accompanying the book is a 2014 painted screen by Monica Broere, active since the 1980s when she bought her first row house and sought a way to watch birds feeding outside her kitchen window. She apprenticed to the grandson of the founding Oktavec family of Baltimore screen painting. The scene is her “mash up” of the iconic red bungalow and colorful modern abstraction.
About Elaine Eff
Elaine is the authority on painted screens. A curator and filmmaker, she has chronicled and conserved living culture as the folklorist for the city of Baltimore and the State of Maryland.
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