Later 19th C. Flowers in Urn Reverse Glass Tinsel Painting cut paer Pretty hard to turn away

Pretty hard to turn away from this face

with thin cream lines around each square

which reads a bit green in some of the photos and a bit pink in others

together with its stance

making them easy to hang up anywhere

Later 19th C. Flowers in Urn Reverse Glass Tinsel Painting cut paer Pretty hard to turn awayI 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