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Object Description
| Brief description | Tea wagon decorated by Per Lysne, Stoughton, 1930-1947. |
| Object name | Tea wagon |
| Alternate object name | Tea cart |
| Maker | Lysne, Per, 1880-1947 |
| Date | 1930-1947 |
| Dimensions | 28 1/2"H x 28"W x 16 1/4"D |
| Materials and techniques | Rosemaling |
| Original location | Stoughton, Dane County, Wisconsin |
| Current location | Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa |
| Description | This small tea cart has two drop leaves with wavy edges. The four straight reeded legs rest on large castors. The lower shelf contains a removable glass-lined tray with two metal handles. Although the cart itself is probably commercially manufactured, the decoration is hand-painted. The entire cart is painted blue-green and the top is decorated with rows of small pink and white flowers and larger sprays of multicolored flowers and leaves. |
| History | The painted decoration was executed by by Per Lysne, the Norwegian immigrant folk artist credited with inspiring the first American revival of Norwegian rosemaling. Rosemaling or rose painting is a form of decorative flower painting first popularized in Norway in the mid-eighteenth century. Many rosemaled objects, especially trunks, were brought to the United States by Norwegian immigrants in the nineteenth century, but the art itself was not practiced widely in America until Lysne initiated its revival in the 1930s. Born in Laerdal, Sogn, Norway, in 1880, Lysne learned to rosemal from his father, a professional decorative painter. In 1906 he settled in Stoughton, Dane County, Wisconsin, where he worked as a decorative painter in a wagon factory. He also began to paint large "smorgasbordet" platters, which soon became a commercial success and were distributed nationally. Although Lysne never offered formal classes in the rose painting technique, he inspired many others to take up the art. |
| Sources | Bertha Kitchell Whyte, Craftsmen of Wisconsin (Racine, WI: Western Publishing Co., 1971); Philip Martin, Rosemaling in the Upper Midwest: A Story of Region and Revival (Mt. Horeb, WI: Wisconsin Folk Museum, 1989); Nils Ellingsgard, Norwegian Rose Painting: What the Immigrants Brought (Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1993); Marion J. Nelson, ed., Norwegian Folk Art: The Migration of a Tradition (New York, Abbeville, 1995). A brief biography of Lysne is available from the Wisconsin Historical Society's Dictionary of Wisconsin History: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=14589 |
| Related objects | Additional examples of Lysne's work in the Vesterheim collections include two chairs (object #s 1976.011.001 and 1979.096.001) and a serving tray (1976.035.001): http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/wda,1967 http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/wda,1970 and http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/wda,2003 |
| Owner | Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum |
| Object # | 1969.009.003 |
| Rights | © 2008 by the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum. Contact the owner for more information. http://vesterheim.org |
| Digital collection | Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database |
| Digital identifier | VNA022 |
| Digital format | XML |
| Type | Physical object |
| Keywords | Furniture; Tables (support furniture); Furnishings (artifacts); Furnishings and equipment |
| Date digitized | 2008-11-17 |
| Date modified | 2010-10-08 |
Description
| Object name | Tea wagon: full view |
| Rights | © 2008 by the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum. Contact the owner for more information. http://vesterheim.org |
| Digital collection | Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database |
| Digital identifier | VNA022a |
| Digital format | image/jpeg |
| Type | Physical object |
| Date digitized | 2008-11-17 |
| Date modified | 2008-11-17 |
