Description
A rare tramp art mirror with a beatiful patina on the wood, glass has been renewed.
Tramp art is a woodworking style in which small pieces of wood, primarily from discarded cigar boxes and shipping crates, are whittled, notched, and assembled into layers with geometric patterns. It was popular between 1870 and the 1940s, when production started to wane. Although I hesitate to think of the art form in relation to the great movements of art history, tramp art did exhibit a worldwide presence and had an effect on our creative history — especially in the art of the common man. Did tramp artists have shared philosophies or goals? Absolutely. They shared a vision to create art out of society’s discards long before it was fashionable. Many were farmers, factory workers, delivery men, laborers, miners, neighbors, fathers, and husbands, a generation of men whose talents were celebrated not in museums or art galleries but in the home. The amount of artifacts that survive today testifies to its enduring appreciation among the people who lived with and used the tramp art objects — created not in the schools or workshops that taught or produced art but in the home.
This tramp art mirror is a very elaborate one with beautiful faded colouring, in good condition, wood, h. 101, w. 74, d. 7, mirrorglass 52×36
