Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2014.

Arts and Crafts Style Frame

Maker Frederick Harer (American, 1879 - 1949)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1915

MediumWood and gilding

SignedHand-carved on reverse: "HARER"

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object numberF2014.11

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 218

DescriptionThis is a period American Arts and Crafts style frame, created ca. 1915, with a solid outer molding of four mitered pieces of hand-carved wood with gilding. It features a running fret top edge, rosette corners, with geometric patterns and short bands of overlapping leaves below to further highlight each corner. The sight edge is reeded, and the center is a curved band in a lozenge form. The total width of the molding is 3 3/8 inches, and an additional 7/8 inch hand-carved flat and hollow gilded liner will be added to extend the total width of the frame to 4 3/8 inches. Its profile measures 1 3/4 inch tall, and the total sight size, in advance of its resizing, is 35 3/8 inches by 29 3/8 inches. The back of the frame features the artist’s hand-carved signature “HARER.”
Label TextFrederick Harer American, 1879–1949 Arts and Crafts Style Frame, ca. 1915 Gilded wood Museum purchase F2014.11 ProvenancePurchased from Gill and Lagodich, New York, NY, by Chrysler Museum of Art, September 2014.