Papering the Parlor

Description:	This painting depicts a group of women working to put up wallpaper in a room of a house in winter. Most of the walls are already fully covered in the wallpaper except around the window. The wallpaper that the women are putting up is a mixture of orange, brown, green and yellow strokes. There are seven women working on the wallpapering process. Two women are smoothing the wallpaper onto the walls, one is smoothly the rolled out paper, two women are putting glue on the paper to be put up, and two are carrying the roll out of the room. The gluing table takes up most of the bottom edge of the painting. All the women in this painting have faces. The two women gluing paper have blue eyes and defined noses. The one holding the roll of paper has glasses. The aprons and bonnets on all have a large amount of detail put into them including defining lines and patterns. Two young girls stand in the right corner watching the women work from the doorway. The girl on the left is wearing a blue dress with white buttons down the back while the girl on the right wears a similar dress in pink. They both are holding dolls. The women in this painting may be of the Old Order Mennonite as the women are wearing patterns, the bonnets have definition which is different than her other depictions of the Amish, and the ribbons used to tie the bonnets are black instead of the white used by the Amish. There is a reddish-brown couch in the left corner of the room with two colorful patterned pillows sitting on the cushions. Through the window, one is able to see a red barn, two buggies, and snow covering the ground. The title of this painting, Papering the Parlor, is located in the just right of the center of the bottom edge in black. Schrocks signature is in the bottom right corner in all black.
Source:	https://elchc.catalogaccess.com/objects/17485
Collection:	Evelyn Lehman Culp Heritage Collection
Copyright:	No Copyright - Non-commercial Use Only
Subjects:	Emma Schrock Collection Emma Schrock, Paintings, Emma Schrock Collection, Art, Grandma Moses of Elkhart County Papering the Parlor

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