Oh this is fun.
I don't know where to start.
The last time I moved (a year ago), we counted 500 pictures. It's insane.
I have only one room 'done' at the new house.
Kathy, I am sending you a picture to resize and post if you don't mind. I think I remember reading in the small print of your new duties as Good Will Ambassador that this service was required of you! hehe.
The former dining room, which is now a 'family' room, is dubbed the hall of women. I have many different portraits of women hanging on the red walls. I collect originals, drawings on paper and oils from 1900-1960, old Cleveland School artists from the same era, or contemporary Cleveland area artists. These two pictures show an 1880's charcoal portrait from France, a 1940's and a 1990's orange conte crayon portraits both from Cleveland artists, a 1920's Marie Laurencin bookplate print, a contemporary etching of the artist's daughter on her wedding day, an art deco woman and horse pen and ink on paper by a prolific Cleveland commercial and fine artist, a 1940's oil portrait from eBay, a contemporary drawing of a woman sleeping done by a recent graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art and a monoprint by a contemporary artist who is a professor of art at Cleveland State University. There is a small, unframed oil on paper architectural study leaning on top of the Tchotchke (sp) cabinet done by my boyfriend's very talented daughter who is about to graduate from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
This is only two corners of one room.
I also collect and have hanging (in the kitchen) old cross stitch samplers, my newly stitched xc samplers, cowboy postcards, various outsider art pieces, vintage original advertising and kid's book illustrations and a small selection of framed bird and fish prints/postcards hanging near the baseboards right by the cat's food dishes. They appreciate fine art, too.
I have my collection of old and new original landscapes in the living room.
The back hall has framed cartoons and silly drawings.
The bedrooms hold my collection of nudes- women, of course. These are all originals, mostly old; some small oils, some black and white photos, but mostly on works on paper. I also have two original 1887 plates from Edweard Muybridge's locomotion studies of nudies. Very sweet, I will probably sell these. They are too valuable to keep.
The stairwell is a good spot for contemporary black and white photos.
The upstairs bathroom has my out of control collection of 50+ vintage snapshots framed all in skinny, fancy gold frames to 8 x 10. I collect snaps of cross dressers, twins, people swimming or lounging on the beach, people posing in oversize plant life, people posing atop something very tall (telephone poles, factory bldgs. cliffs, etc.) and people posing with their pets.
The downstairs half bath has all antique prints in antique frames... prints of angels in Eastlake frames, architectural prints in arts and crafts frames, prints of critters and spots of natural beauty (waterfalls.)
The basement room will eventually hold an explosion of snaps of family and friends and cats and dogs and horses.
What'd I miss?
I LOVELOVELOVE collectingart. Sometimes I think I got into framing just to indulge this habit of mine!
edie the artpackrat goddess