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Toleware Tray

n.d.
20th
21 1/2 in. x 28 in.

Beatrice Pope Hoffman, (February 5, 1885–May 1, 1957)

Object Type: Decorative Art

Medium and Support: gold leaf and paint on tin

Credit Line: Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of Mrs. John Hoffman

Accession Number: 2004.13.4

During the colonial revival of the 1920s and ’30s, Beatrice Pope Hoffman embraced the ideal of handcraftsmanship. An admirer of early American craft processes, she dyed wool and painted metal household goods, also known as “toleware.” This tray is one example. Hoffman combined these pieces in simple, uncluttered domestic interiors on which she sometimes collaborated with her husband, the Old Lyme painter Harry Hoffman. Beatrice Hoffman joined with other local artists, many of them women, to form the Old Lyme Guild of Artists and Craftsmen in the early 1930s. The group sold hand-crafted furniture, paintings, ceramics, ironwork, metal ware, and decorative objects at the Peck Tavern house on Sill Lane in Old Lyme.

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