The White House
Selected Frames
One of our most important projects is the framing of twenty-eight paintings for The White House, including artworks by Martin Johnson Heade, Worthington Whittredge, William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent, Severin Roesen and a painting by Childe Hassam that hangs in the Oval Office.
It all started with the Childe Hassam painting that hangs in the Oval Office. You frequently see photos of the President near the painting. We proceeded to create an additional 28 frames which were paid for by The White House. The curator who was in charge at the time was Betty Monkman, who has since retired. Mr. Wilner traveled to the White House frequently during this time period. It was one of the great honors of Mr. Wilner and the company to be able to create these frames. The paintings had been given to the White House during the Kennedy Administration, but had been framed inappropriately in French-style reproduction frames. We re-created frames from the correct period for each painting.
Albert Bierstadt
Storm Clouds
Alfred Bricher
Castle Rock, Nahant, Massachusetts
William Merritt Chase
Shinnecock Hill, Long Island
Frederic Church
Rutland Falls, Vermont
Jasper Cropsey
Autumn Landscape on the Hudson River
Thomas Eakins
Ruth
Martin Johnson Heade
Florida Sunrise
Martin Johnson Heade
Sailing Off the Coast
George Healy
The Peacemakers
Andrew Melrose
New York Harbor and the Battery
Samuel F.B. Morse
James Monroe
Ferdinand Richardt
Independence Hall in Philadelphia
Severin Roesen
Still Life with Fruit, Goblet, and Canary
John Singer Sargent
Mosquito Net
Wordsworth Thompson
Cannonading on the Potomac, October 1861
Worthington Whittredge
Crossing the River Platte
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Selected Frames
Eli Wilner & Company created a hand-carved and gilded replica of the lost original frame for Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze. This frame is the focal point of the renovated American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The frame’s opening size is over 12 x 21 feet, and is surmounted by an elaborate construction twelve feet across displaying an eagle, flags, pikes, a banner and other regalia.
Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emmanuel Leutze at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
View Project
Mary Cassatt
Lydia Crocheting
Thomas Eakins
Arcadia
Thomas Eakins
Arcadia (left), Portrait of the Artist’s Wife (center), The Writing Master (right)
Thomas Eakins
The Writing Master
Theodore Robinson
The Old Mill
John Singer Sargent
Madame X
Sotheby's
Selected Frames
Modigliani Nu Assis Sur un Divan, oil on canvas, sold at Sotheby’s New York on November 9, 2010 for $69,000,000. Period frame re-creation by Eli Wilner & Company, shaped and painted with gilding.
Nu Assis Sur un Divan by Modigliani
Giorgio De Chirico
Trovatore
39 5/8 x 27 ½ inches
circa 1949
Sold at Sotheby’s on November 5th, 2009 for $1,734,500
André Derain
Barques au port de Collioure
23 5/8” x 28 ¾ inches
Circa 1905
Sold at Sotheby’s on November 4th, 2009 for $14,082,500
Jean Dubuffet
Trinité-Champs-Elysées
45 ¾” x 35 inches
Circa 1961
Sold at Sotheby’s on November 11th, 2009 for $6,130,500
John William Godward
Beauty in a Marble Room
50 x 20 inches
Circa 1894
Sold at Sotheby’s on October, 22nd 2009 for $386,500
Frida Kahlo
Roots
12 x 19 ½ inches
Circa 1943
Sold at Sotheby’s on May 24th, 2006 for $5,616,000
Frederic, Lord Leighton, P.R.A.
Venus Disrobing for the Bath
80 1/8 x 35 7/8 inches
Sold at Sotheby’s on October 22nd, 2009 for $1,874,500
Kazimir Malevich
Suprematist Composition
34 7/8 x 28 inches
Circa 1916
Sold at Sotheby’s on November 4th, 2008 for $60,002,500
Pablo Picasso
Dora Maar Au Chat
50 ½ x 37 ½ inches
Circa 1941
Sold at Sotheby’s on May 3rd, 2006 for $95,216,000
Vincent Van Gogh
Under a Stormy Sky
1889
Sotheby’s – Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale
November 5th, 2015 for $54,010,000
Fernand Leger
Nature Morte
1924
Sotheby’s – Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
November 5th, 2015 for $5,066,000
Kees van Dongen
Femme au Chapeau Vert
1910
Sotheby’s – Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
November 5th, 2015 for $4,338,000
Vincent Van Gogh
L’Allée des Alyscamps
1888
Sotheby’s Evening Sale May 5th, 2015 for $66,330,000
Sir Peter Paul Rubens & Jan Breughel the Younger Siegen
Landscape with Pan and Syrinx
1626
Sotheby’s – The Weldon Collection
April 22nd, 2015 for $3,130,000
Pablo Picasso
Verre et Pichet
1944
Sotheby’s – Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
November 4th, 2014 for $2,853,000
Pablo Picasso
Tete d’ Homme
1965
Sotheby’s – Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
November 4th, 2014 for $4,421,000
Pablo Picasso
Portrait de Femme (Marie-Therese)
1937
Sotheby’s – Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
November 4th, 2014 for $4,421,000
Claude Monet
Le Jardin de Vetheuil
1881
Sotheby’s – Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
November 4th, 2014 for $7,557,000
Pieter Bruegel the Younger
Summer: Figures Eating During the Summer Harvest
1565
Sotheby’s – Old Master’s Paintings
January 30th, 2014 for $5,205,000
Norman Rockwell
The Gossips
1948
Sotheby’s – American Art
December 4th, 2013 for $8,453,000
Norman Rockwell
Saying Grace
Sotheby’s – American Art
December 4th, 2013 for $46,085,000
Julia Margaret Cameron
Kate Keown
1866
Sotheby’s – 175 Masterworks
December 11, 2014 for $461,000
August Sander
Handlanger
1928
Sotheby’s – 175 Masterworks
December 11, 2014 for $749,000
Alfred Stieglitz
Out of Window
1915
Sotheby’s – 175 Masterworks
December 11, 2014 for $461,000
Christie's
Selected Frames
Nude, Green Leaves and Bust
by Pablo Picasso
Sold at Christie’s on May 6, 2010 for $106,000,000
When this historic painting was sold in New York in 2010, we were approached by Christie’s with the request that a more appropriate frame be created for the painting to prepare it for their sale.
Christie’s supplied us with the attached historical photograph showing the frame that was originally used on the painting in the 1932 Georges Petit exhibition, curated by Picasso himself. By the time the painting reached Christie’s, this frame had been lost.
From our collection of over 3600 frames, a frame closely matching this photograph was found, and a handcrafted replica was created to fit the painting, returning it to the appearance that the artist had originally intended.
Mary Cassatt
Children Playing with a Dog
39 ½” x 29 inches
Circa 1907
Sold at Christie’s on May 24th, 2007 for $6,200,000
Paul Gauguin
The Man with the Ax
36 ½” x 27 5/8 inches
Circa 1891
Sold at Christie’s on November 8th, 2006 for $40,336,000
Childe Hassam
Fifth Avenue, Evening
21 ¾ x 15 ½ inches
Circa 1890-93
Sold at Christie’s on December 4th, 2008 for $902,500
Claude Monet
Waterloo Bridge
25 ½ x 39 1/8 inches
Circa 1904
Sold at Christie’s on June 14th, 2007 for $35,539,140
Claude Monet
Port au Jardin
23 13/16 x 28 ¾ inches
Circa 1881
Sold at Christie’s on May 9th, 2007 for $2,728,000
Andy Warhol
Marilyn Monroe
20 x 16 inches
Circa 1962
Sold at Christie’s on May 16th, 2007 for $28,040,000
Norman Rockwell
The Rookie
1957
Christie’s – American Art,
May 22nd, 2014 for $22,565,000
John Singer Sargent
Girl Fishing in San Vigilio
1913
Christie’s – American Art,
May 22nd, 2014 for $4,309,000
Edward Hopper
East Wind over Weehawken
1934
Christie’s – American Art,
December 5th, 2013 for $40,485,000