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Bonader, wall hangings

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Category: Exhibit
Start date: 13 Dec 2019 10:00 AM
End date: 12 Jan 2020 04:00 PM
Street / Location: 5211 N Clark Street
City / town: Chicago
Country: Illinois, USA
Organizer: Swedish American Museum
Name: Angelica Farzaneh-Far
Email: afarzanehfar@samac.org
Phone: 917.495.8396
Homepage: www.swedishamericanmuseum.org/2.0/event/bonader-opens/

One of the most remarkable examples of Scandinavian folk art is the painted picture indigenous to the Swedish peasant home. The commonly used name for these peasant paintings is bonader, and their provenance was to decorate the walls and ceilings of the homes at Christmas time and on feast days, thus adding a note of color and gaiety to the otherwise dark interiors.

The exhibit is in the Main Gallery through Jan. 12, 2020.