Later 19th C. Flowers in Urn Reverse Glass Tinsel Painting private eye 5ʺ x 12" and in

5ʺ x 12" and in very good condition

Artist unknown

geometrically shaped logos

though unmarked

Later 19th C. Flowers in Urn Reverse Glass Tinsel Painting private eye 5ʺ x 12" and inI 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