August Americana
Description:
Polychrome Watercolor Baptism Fraktur for Rahel Portzline, Francis Portzline, Union County, Pennsylvania, c. 1854, the central heart with German inscriptions below a heart pinwheel flanked by birds on tulip vines above a pair of birds and a woman in a dark green gown, signed "Francis Portzline" l.l., in a black-painted frame, ht. 12 1/4, wd. 15 1/2 in. (sight).
Provenance: Joan Johnson, Hidden Glen, Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania.
Exhibitions: Painters of Record: William Murray and his School, Museum of American Folk Art, New York, December 6, 1990-March 3, 1991; Albany Institute of History and Art, April 1-May 27, 1991.
The Arthur & Sybil Kern Collection of American Folk Art
Estimate $4,000-6,000
Subtle wrinkles, faint evidence of an vertical fold, few closed tears along the bottom edge, a paper repair with inpainting in the peacock's tail.
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Keywords
William Murray, Joan Johnson, Rahel Portzline, Sybil KernStephen L. Fletcher
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