Toleware designs, 1954-1956.

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Toleware designs, 1954-1956.

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Designs for toleware trays and document boxes. These designs incorporate from one to three sheets. Typically, one sheet has the outline of the design, and the other sheet is painted in the desired colors, but for a number of designs, only the painted pattern or the outline is present. The designs incorporate insects, fruit, foliage, and floral arrangements, plus one bird. Some designs are initialed DCL and bear dates, and a couple have notes about colors. As well, the collection includes two printed designs by William L. Crowell, available from the Crowell-Austin Studio; a poster for the Craftsman Fair sponsored by the Norwell (Mass.) Art Association; and photographs of other designs created by Mrs. Lennihan.

1 box (ca.40 items) : chiefly ill.

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Lennihan, Dorothy Cordley.

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Dorothy Cordley (Mrs. Richard) Lennihan was from New Jersey, but her family also had a house on Martha's Vineyard, and at some point, moved to Alexandria, Virginia. She took classes in tole painting from an unknown instructor on Cape Cod, possibly William L. Crowell. The instructor had collected old toleware, the designs on which his students were allowed to copy. He sold plain trays and boxes to his students to decorate. Mrs. Lennihan turned one of the rooms of their house on Martha's Vineyard ...

Crowell, William Gordon, 1944-

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