Sold separately.
measures 8” x 10”
some chilling to the edge of the painting that will be hidden by a frame.
The Windsor Art Company originates from the Illinois Molding Company of Chicago which was the brainchild of Hungarian immigrant Herman Molner. He founded the firm in 1896. Windsor Art Products was the art publishing division of the company. Windsor would license art for reproduction, then mass-produce works of their contracted artists. The idea was to make a line of “fine” art affordable to all. The company outlived its founder, who passed away in 1951. Windsor Art Products continued into the late 1960s or early ’70s. The Windsor name was later picked up and the company continued in California through the 1980's.
Many Windsor Art pictures were “enhanced” with real brush strokes to simulate an original painting. Quite a few were sold through so-called “starving artists” sales set up in hotel ballrooms and shopping malls. In truth, almost all of the signature were fictitious and the paintings were mass produced in factory settings by local craftsmen.