Later 19th C. Flowers in Urn Reverse Glass Tinsel Painting private eye with terrific porch-like pen cut

with terrific porch-like pen cut with horizontal slats (to let the animals see the sun and breath fresh air

All seams tightly held

Artist unknown

An instant ladies legs caliper collection

This wonderful seagull

Later 19th C. Flowers in Urn Reverse Glass Tinsel Painting private eye with terrific porch-like pen cutI recently spent a bunch of time going through the online collection of the American Folk Art Museum, which happens to have the largest collection of tinsel paintings anywhere, many of which were featured in a major 2013 exhibition there titled "Foiled." Looking at those examples got me thinking about, and paying more attention to, this particular form of reverse glass painting, in which crumpled pieces of metallic foil were applied behind unpainted