Oil Paintings
on Cotton Velveteen

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This painting of the Portage Bridge is based on a lithograph found in the museum at Letchworth Park NY and a oil painting found in the museum at Colonial Williamsburg Virginia.

This theorem is adaptation of the Portage Bridge created by artist Nancy Rosier.

This painting is done on a cotton velveteen fabric, in oil, with the use of a stencil. This process is called theorem painting which is a true American Folk Art. Theorems were very popular between 1810 & 1860.

The frame is gold but is also offered in a grained frames.

This theorem is very special for Nancy & Bill Rosier since this is where they got engaged many years ago.

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Portage Bridge Painting
by American Folk Artist Nancy Rosier
Adaptation of Oil Painting found at Colonial Williamsburg

 

This theorem is an adaptation of a Portage Bridge lithograph by Onken's Lithograph company, 1853, painted by Ed Bayer. The museum at Letchworth Park NY describes this lithograph as follows - One spring day in 1858, a steam train slowly approached ahuge bridge six miles from the town of Nunda. Spanning the gorge between Wyoming & Livingston counties, the wooden spider web appeared suspended in air, 234 feet above the Genesee River. The train slowed down for the bridge and Letchworth hopped off to explore the gorge for the first time. This Lithograph print shows the bridge before it burned in 1875.