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Object Description
| Brief description | One of a pair of three-legged chairs painted by Per Lysne for the Cottage at Ten Chimneys, ca. 1933. |
| Object name | Chair |
| Maker | Lysne, Per, 1880-1947 |
| Date | ca. 1933 |
| Dimensions | 30 1/2"H x 28"W x 15 1/2"D |
| Materials and techniques | Rosemaling |
| Original location | Stoughton, Dane County, Wisconsin |
| Current location | Genesee Depot, Waukesha County, Wisconsin |
| Description | This three-legged chair is a traditional Norwegian form known by various sources as a rokkestol, jorestol or bandestol. It has three flat, flaring legs, a bentwood back, a flat D-shaped seat, and a deep front seat rail. It is painted off-white with floral motifs in green, blue, and red, outlined in black. Currently among the furnishings in the living room in the Cottage at Ten Chimneys. |
| History |
This chair and its mate were decorated by Norwegian immigrant folk artist Per Lysne of Stoughton, Wisconsin. The chairs may have been constructed by Lysne himself or by Hakken Thole, a Stoughton cabinetmaker who, according to Bertha Kitchell Whyte, built furniture for Lysne to paint. A 1933 photograph by Warren O'Brien (on file at Ten Chimneys Foundation) shows the pair of chairs flanking a large press cupboard or wardrobe, also decorated by Lysne, in a bedroom in the Cottage at Ten Chimneys, Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. 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 | For more on Lysne and the craft of rosemaling, see Bertha Kitchell Whyte, Craftsmen of Wisconsin (Racine, WI: Western Publishing Co., 1971); 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 | Matching chair at Ten Chimneys: http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/wda,2841 Cupboard painted by Lysne in the Cottage at Ten Chimneys (object # 1999.001.1227): http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/wda,2836 Similar three-legged chairs decorated by Lysne are among the collections of the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum (object #s 1976.011.001 and 1979.096.001): http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/wda,1967 and http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/wda,1970 |
| Owner | Ten Chimneys Foundation |
| Rights | (c) 2010 by Ten Chimneys Foundation. Contact the owner for more information. http://www.tenchimneys.org/ |
| Digital collection | Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database |
| Digital identifier | TC005 |
| Digital format | XML |
| Type | Physical object |
| Keywords | Furniture; Chairs (furniture forms); Seating furniture; Furnishings (artifacts); Furnishings and equipment |
| Date digitized | 2010-06-17 |
| Date modified | 2010-10-01 |
Description
| Object name | Chair: full view |
| Rights | (c) 2010 by Ten Chimneys Foundation. Contact the owner for more information. http://www.tenchimneys.org/ |
| Digital collection | Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database |
| Digital identifier | TC005a |
| Digital format | image/jpeg |
| Type | Physical object |
| Date digitized | 2010-06-17 |
| Date modified | 2010-06-17 |
