Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) the embossing company "Americans 1963" is the catalogue

"Americans 1963" is the catalogue for the MoMA exhibition of the same title

It opens with ease

) As is the gilded frame is I think a good and traditional fit for it and I'd just leave it alone

)  As with many of his works in this series

In a lush palette of soft greens

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) the embossing company "Americans 1963" is the catalogueThese two small seaweed pressings are among a handfulI purchased together, which I think are just exquisitely beautiful! A few of them are signed and dated at bottom, others initialed on back (the smaller of these two is initialed C. A. S), so they represent the work of a few different people, most likely young women, among whom seaweed collecting and pressing was quite the thing during the Victorian era. I love the fact that making these represented