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Apr 15, 2016 · Arthur Frank Mathews, (American, 1860–1945), “Bather with Mermaid and Pearls,” n.d. Oil on panel, 21″ x 18″ inches (framed: 31 ½” x 28 ½”) The challenge of framing this piece was to honor not only the painting but the extraordinary artistic legacy and standard of the Mathewses’s frames.
Lucia and Arthur Mathews Furniture Shop (American (San Francisco, California), c.1906-c.1920s). A large carved and painted wood painting frame with squared molding, each of the four sides bearing an inner raised band of carved repeating cyma curve scrolls extending outward from central scrolls with similar embellishments to each molding end ...
- Framing Thomas Hill
- The Question of Re-Framing: to Honor Historical Convention Or The Painting?
- For Beauty’s Sake, and Not For Show
- The Frame-Maker’S Approach
- Frames and The Enduring Struggle For The Unity of The Arts—And of Creation
One painting we’ll be featuring in the exhibit is “Study for Boulders, Yosemite,” by Thomas Hill (1829-1908). If you can put yourself in the shoes of an Englishman who, in 1865, having spent his thirty-six years in topographically lovely, but relatively tame, Britain and Massachusetts, saw Yosemite Valley for the first time, you can imagine the sen...
Museum curators, art historians, and other authoritative voices on such matters often argue that a frame that is contemporaneous with a painting allows us to see the painting as it was seen at the time it was painted. The “historically correct” frame is therefore supposed to be more true to the picture. It is also, this view implies, conducive to e...
The vast majority of frames from this period were either entirely factory-made or put together in smaller shops using prefab molding and ornaments. More than likely, the frame was chosen by an art dealer; such frames are often called “dealer’s frames.” Familiar with the kinds of homes his clients owned, the dealer was also (perhaps even more so) gu...
Especially with rustic subject matter like Hill’s boulder, the frame need not, and generally should not, be complicated. Above all, it should sustain the spirit of reverence for nature by being made in natural material and made to reveal and honor the material’s natural beauty and character. Nothing we make is as beautiful as what nature makes—an u...
Just as painters like Hill and preservationists like Muir were fighting to save precious lands, there were, in the face of a broken harmony in the arts, notable worthy frame-makers, painters and architects who understood the great problem and its significance, and were passionately fighting—against powerful and finally overwhelming cultural forces ...
Sep 6, 2019 · A carved and painted oak Mathews frame on an Arthur Mathews oil painting, “Afterglow at the Seashore” Given the outstanding quality, character and significance of Mathews frames, the rare times I’ve had their work come in to the shop, I’ve found it impossible to design the frames without channeling the Mathewses’ framing sensibilities.
''Summertime'', circa 1915, bears signature lower right: Arthur Mathews, oil on canvas laid to canvas in a modern hand-carved gilt and polychromed reproduction Furniture Shop frame, 23.5'' H x 26'' W, est: $50,000/70,000. Note: Restrained and elegant, Arthur Mathews' ''Summertime'' depicts a sweeping Arcadian seaside landscape.
Jan 1, 2021 · 10165. Arthur & Lucia Mathews Furniture Shop Hand-Carved Eucalyptus Frame c1910 with a contemporary reproduction Arthur Mathews painting. Painting 29″h x 46″w. Mathews Frame 42″h x 58″w SOLD
Jun 24, 2008 · Arthur Frank Mathews. Jun 24, 2008. —. by. cparker. in Gallery and Museum Art. Athur Mathews was a California painter active in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Mathews is sometimes thought of as an Art Nouveau artist. He and his wife Lucia Mathews, also an artist and one of his former students at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in ...
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