{"product_id":"womens-painted-furniture-17901830-american-schoolgirl-art","title":"Womens Painted Furniture  17901830: American Schoolgirl Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this long-awaited tribute to womens painted furniture  author and artist Betsy Krieg Salm rediscovers a style of early American decorative art still largely unknown to curators  antique dealers  art historians  and the public. She documents the socioeconomic  cultural  and aesthetic history of the form  which includes such items as sewing and work boxes  face screens  and tables. Salm carefully chronicles the process itself  describing a selection of cabinetmakers  woods  varnishes  and paints  along with the specific tools and techniques used by women artists. Salm analyzes the styles  designs  and patterns of more than two hundred pieces. Treating these objects as documents of womens daily lives  she shows the close relationship between painted furniture motifs and those of needlework and other decorative arts of the period. Thanks to her scholarship  this art form may now receive the recognition it deserves in the broader genre of American womens art. Womens Painted Furniture presents a comprehensive collection of images  most of which are not available elsewhere. Primary sources include recipes  patterns  genealogies of artisans  chemical analyses of antiques  instructions in methods and technique  and the original  mainly English  sources of artistic inspiration for painters and needle workers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986977878069,"sku":"ByrdShop_1584658452","price":68.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781584658450.jpg?v=1770922064","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/womens-painted-furniture-17901830-american-schoolgirl-art","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}