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Donor |
Museum Purchase |
Description |
A print of a woman standing in an arched outdoor hallway. She is dressed in a historic, possibly medieval, drses with the dress being orange with gold detailing and a dark blue underside that is revealed as the skirt is pinned up at two points at the waist to create a train and show the white petticoat with a pattern of clusters of blue and gold dots. The sleeves are a white see-through flowy material with a gold border along the edges. She is wearing a tall white and blue checked headdress with a draping of blue across the front and a white veil that comes around her chin and flows from the back. Her right arm is up with her hand bringing out the veil part of her headdress out. Behind her is an arch built into a white wall, two more arches are halfway visible on either side. Through the arch are trees and other greenery. The floor the woman is on is yellow and black checkered. Wiinblad's signature is in the bottom right, 3 in. up from the corner. |
Dimensions |
H-0.75 W-17.25 L-24.5 inches |
Made By |
Wiinblad, Bjørn |
Owned By |
Zaidin, Alice/Zaidin, Earle |
Used By |
Zaidin, Alice/Zaidin, Earle |
Material |
paper |
Associated People |
Zaidin, Alice Zaidin, Earle Rosenberg, Jason Wiinblad, Bjørn |
Search Terms |
Zaidin, Alice Zaidin, Earle Rosenberg, Jason Wiinblad, Bjørn Wiinblad Art Woman |
Provenance |
This collection of work by Danish artist Bjørn Wiinblad was gathered by Earle Zaidin of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Through his professional career, he became personal friends with Wiinblad, who then created several unique one-of-a-kind pieces for Earle and his wife Alice, including porcelains and Christmas cards. The other pieces were collected by the Zaidins. Earle Warren Zaidins was born May 25, 1925 in Wisconsin and died January 17, 2001. He was an entertainment lawyer at a booking agency in New York called Shaw Artists throughout the 1950s and 1960s where he worked with Lenny Bruce, Althea Gibson and Billie Holiday, among others. He later transitioned into being a local judge and administrative law judge and mediator for New York, Westchester, and other regional Counties Boards of Health and Education. He served in the Marines at Okinawa, Japan before moving to New York, where he remained until his death. Text from the exhibition Danish Modern: Design for Living, created by The Danish Immigrant Museum in 2013: "Many Danish designers sought to leave tradition behind - Bjørn Wiinblad succeeded better than most. His designs create a world populated with round, smiling, timeless figures. Though the figures and forms are vaguely 19th-century in style, the colors and exuberance of Wiinblad's work make them uniquely his own. As a craftsman, Wiinblad excelled as a ceramic artist; his artistic vision extended to graphic art and textile design, as well." (Wiinblad, 1918-2006) |
Date Received by Museum |
10/13/2021 |
Images |
355\2021009038.JPG |
Accession number |
2021.009 |
Object Identification Number |
2021.009.038 |