Folding Screen, Branches and Tendrils

Artist:Robert W. Chanler

Medium: Canvas, pigment, on wood frame

Geograhical Locations:

Dates:1920

Dimensions: each panel: 65 7/8 x 16 3/4 x 7/8 in. (167.3 x 42.5 x 2.2 cm)

Collections:

Accession Number: 22.83

Catalogue Description:
Four-part folding screen. Each tall narrow panel with identical arched top. One side with gold ground and tall vertical undulating black seaweed interspersed with elongated silver fish decorated with black dots, scales, and fins. Other side with wide black conforming border with interior loosely painted with striations of off-white, pinks, and blues, with one black primative dancing figure to lower register of each panel and black birds and butterflies above.

Brooklyn Museum