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Title |
Shadow Box Frame for Flood Family Portraits, c. 1908-1918 |
Object Name |
Frame, Picture |
Description |
Shadow Box Frame for Flood Family Portraits, c. 1908-1918. Brown wooden frame has a plexiglass top and archival cardboard backing. Interior is lined with a brick colored velvet and has cut-outs to hold Flood family framed watercolor-on-ivory portraits (2021.004.001-007). At the top of each cut-out is mounted a gold-colored metal hook with a decorative bow at the top. These hooks are inserted into the lining via two metal prongs all of which were once covered with paper tape. Frames have been outlined and identified on archival cardboard backing in black ink and additional notes explaining donor's relationship to those depicted are handwritten in pencil. The back of the archival paper has been painted green. |
Date |
c. 1908-1918 |
Creator |
Kumatty, Oscar |
Role |
Artist |
Catalog Number |
2021.004 |
Dimensions |
H-21 W-17 D-1.5 inches |
Collection |
3D - Household Accessories |
Inscription Text |
Handwritten inscriptions on archival cardboard backing: "Mary Emma Leary Flood / (Stebbins) / July 7, 1900 - Aug. 11, 1987" (top left circle in black ink); "(Ted's mother)" (below top left circle in pencil); "James L. Flood, Jr. / 1902-1904" (top right circle in black ink); "her brothers" (in pencil with an arrow pointing to top right circle and center rectangle); "baby who died" (in pencil below top right circle); "Mary Emma (Leary) / Flood / Aug. 17, 1827 - Jan. 27, 1897" (center left circle in black ink); "Cora Jane Flood / (Sister of Jas.C.) / (1855-1928) / with / James Flood / 1908-1990" (center rectangle in black ink); "James C. Flood / Oct. 25, 1826-Feb. 21, 1889 / 'THE COMSTOCK KING'" (right center circle in black ink); "Ted's great- / grandfather" (below right center circle in pencil); "James Leary Flood / (1857-1926)" (bottom left circle in black ink); "Ted's grandparents" (between bottom circles in pencil); "Maud Lee (Fritz) / Flood / (1876-1966)" (bottom right circle in black ink) |
Provenance |
Seven individually framed watercolor-on-ivory portraits featuring the Flood family painted by Oscar Kumatty, c. 1907 and housed inside a custom shadow-box frame of the same period. |
Search Terms |
Flood Family Flood Stebbins, Mary Emma Leary Flood, James C. Flood, James L. Flood, James L., Jr. Flood, Mary Emma Flood, Maude Framed Art frames |
Subjects |
Families Portrait paintings |
People |
Flood Family Flood Stebbins, Mary Emma Leary Flood, Cora Jane Flood, James C. Flood, James L. Flood, Jr., James L. Flood, Mary Emma Flood, Maude |
Credit line |
Courtesy of Ted Stebbins |