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Eli Wilner & Co. Reframes A Masterpiece At The MetAdd to My Archive

Just as a sour note can dull a symphony, the wrong frame can flatten the most magnificent of paintings. So when the Metropolitan Museum of Art decided to reframe one of its most popular — and largest — paintings, it turned to framer extraordinaire Eli Wilner to recreate a surround for the monumental and historically important “George Washington Crossing the Delaware.” For Wilner, this was the most challenging project to date for the firm he established 26 years ago this September. The artisan began his craft in a fifth floor walkup with $6,000 he earned running the framing department at another gallery where the sale of antique frames was not permitted. Those were the days when museums and galleries routinely discarded period frames in favor of the contemporary, or even the frameless, and Wilner was ready and waiting to scoop them up. Today, it is a different story; period frames are treasured and Wilner’s creations are highly esteemed. The company counts among its clients, in addition to the Met, the Smithsonian, the White House, Yale University, the New-York Historical Society. ...Read More

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