This small stand is made up of a lattice of small strips of wood whittled into points, a style of tramp art known as "Crown of Thorns." Tramp art is the name given to a type of woodworking popular in the United States between about 1865 and 1940, characterized by simple techniques such as chip-carving and whittling and the use of small bits of wood assembled into or applied to larger forms. For more information, see Amy Ortiz-Holmes, Tramp Art: Cultural Expression, Visual Splendor, exhibition catalog, Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, College of Lake County, Illinois (2004): gallery.clcillinois.edu/pdf/Trampart2004.pdf and John and Linda Scholl, "Crown of Thorns" in the online resource Tramp-art.com: www.tramp-art.com/crown_of_thorns_classroom.htm
This object is the property of the Mt. Horeb Area Historical Society. The image is part of the Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database, a digital archive of Wisconsin objects. For more information, see content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/wda,2115
Posted by Wisconsin Decorative Arts on 2008-12-22 22:25:53
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