Pa. German Fraktur

1935/1942

Albert Levone

Associated Names
Albert Levone

Artist, American, active c. 1935

The image is a painting featuring a central circle filled with German text surrounded by intricate floral and geometric motifs in red, blue, yellow, and green hues. The rest of the artwork includes symmetrical floral designs, stylized blooms, leaves, decorative borders, circular motifs, heart shapes with text inside, and shield-like elements with stripes and floral extensions. This is in the style of traditional Pennsylvania Dutch fraktur art.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper

  • Credit Line

    Index of American Design

  • Dimensions

    overall: 40.8 x 47.5 cm (16 1/16 x 18 11/16 in.)
    Original IAD Object: none given

  • Accession Number

    1943.8.7583

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1970

  • Hornung, Clarence P., Treasury of American Design, New York: 1970, p. 722, no. 2634.

Inscriptions

lower right in black ink: Albert Levone

Wikidata ID

Q64533888

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