Contributed by Portland Museum of Art
Description
Madeleine Burrage was a gemologist and jeweler who worked precious and semi-precious stones in gold and silver. She and her sister, Mildred Burrage, were accomplished artists who supported each other. Mildred painted at least 35 montages of Madeleine’s jewelry, perhaps as promotional material for Madeleine’s work.
Mildred developed a technique in Mexico and Guatemala of underpainting her watercolors with white gesso—a canvas preparation artists normally use for oil and acrylic painting—and mixed gesso with her watercolor paints to accomplish gleaming and realistic jewel-like colors in the paintings. Mildred said an agate stone bracelet inspired this method of painting.
About This Item
- Title: Madeleine Burrage's jewelry, Wiscasset, ca. 1950
- Creator: Mildred Giddings Burrage
- Creation Date: circa 1950
- Subject Date: 1950
- Location: Wiscasset, Lincoln County, ME
- Media: graphite, watercolor and gouache on paper
- Dimensions: 21.9 cm x 27 cm
- Local Code: 1981.1323.14
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Artists--Maine
- Burrage, Madeleine, 1891-1976
- Burrage, Mildred G. (Mildred Giddings), 1890-1983
- Fashion
- Jewelry
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Portland Museum of Art99 Spring St. , Portland, ME 04101
207) 699-4983
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Madeleine Burrage in hat by Mildred Burrage, ca. 1912
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