GL-8498 c. 1860s-1870s American frame

This frame was likely fabricated in Paris, where American ex-patriate artist Edwin Lord Weeks had his studio at the time.  Detailed information on the history of this frame, as designed and utilized by Weeks,  is outlined in a magazine article written by Tracy Gill.

GL-3969 c. 1910 American Arts and Crafts frame, Newcomb-Macklin

Four Panel Folding Screen by Max Kuehne, American, circa 1930, two-sided gilded and polychromed wood decorated in oxidized silver leaf, tempera and gesso with overall incised floral and foliate decoration on front. Water-gilded and oil-gilded surfaces purposely oxidized and textured overall. Overall Dimensions: 71-3/4 x 61-1/4 inches. Restored and consolidated by Gill & Lagodich Restoration Studios for Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, PA. http://twitpic.com/eqeim

GL-3969 c. 1910 American Arts and Crafts frame, Newcomb-Macklin

PERIOD FRAME c. 1895-1905 American Stanford White painting frame; gilded composition ornament over wood; attached grille design, tightly overlapping leaf and berry top edge, running pearls, reverse ogee profile with attached grille ornament. Sight size: 17-11/16” x 23-3/4 Molding width: 6-5/8”

PERIOD FRAME c. 1915 American painting frame, (earlier Stanford White design), Newcomb-Macklin, New York makers, gold leaf, gray bole, gesso, on cast ornament on wood. Flat panel profile with alternating rows of applied ornament. This example has good original gilding. Sight size 20-1/2” x 26-1/2” Molding width 3-3/4” Note: Stanford White’s original design of this frame model, circa 1880, was fabricated of hand-carved wood by Joseph Cabus, New York.

“During his lifetime, Stanford White closely guarded permissions for fabrication of his frame designs. Following his untimely death in 1906, the Newcomb-Macklin Company of New York and Chicago acquired the molds and rights to reproduce White’s frame designs and began making copies under its own name in 1912. … A selection of these designs can be seen in photographic plates of grouped frame corners, presented in a book on his father’s work by Lawrence Grant White, Sketches and Designs by Stanford White, New York: Architectural Book Publishing 1920.” —excerpt from Beaux Arts & Crafts: Masterpieces of American Frame Design 1890–1920, p. 16, High Museum of Art exhibition catalogue written by Tracy Gill.

Above: Ten period frames designed by Stanford White from the Gill & Lagodich Collection. Photo credit: Simon Cherry.

“Stanford White was a champion frame designer. For adaptation of classical elements into new works of art, White’s frames remain unsurpassed. He embraced, experimented, and transformed traditional patterns. Architectonic tabernacle styles, frames with pierced foliate and arabesque patterns, basket weaves, fish-scales, twining leaves, and fence-like grilles with different tonalities of gold and metal leaf were specifically created to harmonize with each individual painting.” — fig. 5, p 143, excerpt from “American Period Frame Connoisseurship in the Twenty-first Century,” extensive chapter written by Tracy Gill and Simeon Lagodich, contributing authors, American Art Collecting and Connoisseurship, Merrell Publishers Limited, London and New York, Sept 2020.