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artisan
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a
person who makes decorative useful objects
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circa
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approximately;
used with dates when the exact date is unknown
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Classical
Revival
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style
of furniture and architecture popular in the United States from about 1800-1850.
The ornament and decorative motifs were borrowed from the Ancient Greeks
and Romans.
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commemorate
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to
celebrate an event or person we want to remember
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composition
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the
arrangement of shapes, colors, lines in a drawing or painting
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cornucopia
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a
horn-shaped container, often shown spilling over with fruits, used in harvest
celebrations and to symbolize abundance and harvest
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decal
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a
decorative image printed on special paper for transfer to another surface.
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Depression
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the
period from late 1929 through the late 1930s after the crash of the stock
market in which 25% of the workforce was unemployed in the United States;
the resulting economic crisis affected much of the world.
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double
exposure
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two
photographic images on the same negative, producing a ghost like effect
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figural
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appearing
like a realistic person or object, as in a figural design
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gilt
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having
a thin layer of gold or gold like material
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Jacquard
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using
a system of punched cards that controlled the opening of warp threads in
certain looms; named after its inventor Joseph Marie Jacquard
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motif
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a
single decoration or image, such as a flower, a shell, or a circle, that
is repeated in a design
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mourning
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time
during which we grieve for the dead
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mural
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a
wall-sized painting mounted on a wall or painted directly on a wall
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regionalist
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style
of painting, created by a painter, probably from the 1930s Midwest, who
painted rural scenes and subjects celebrating small-town America
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Works
Progress Administration (WPA)
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a
government program U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Congress
created to help get people back to work during the Depression. There was
a program for artists in the WPA.
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