These are really beautiful reproductions of Julia Bach Florals, repurposed into Washable Table Place mats. The colors are quite striking; yellow daises, pink tulips, purple violets & orange poppies make up the collection. Each has a wavy tan border & solid tan back. The place mats are made of heavy fibre embossed with a washable printed paper. They are textured on the back to aid in cushioning the table. There are four in the set. The back of each tray is marked Washable Both Sides. The information on the front & sides of the box indicates: Table Place Mats Julia Bach Famous American Artist Hillair Publishing Co., New York, N.Y. No. 1014 Table Place Mats 1 set (4 to a Set) Famous Artists Series Florals by Julia Bach The place mats are really in very nice condition, considering their age. They are still fully functional, without rips or tears. There are small spots of slight staining on a couple of the place mats & all of them are slightly concave in shape. The daisy image shows the most wear; a few spots of surface marring & they are small pin holes along the top that leads me to believe it was pinned up in display at one time. ays. The box is quite damaged but I will send it along for the authenticity. The corners & edges are crunched & the top image is puckered & appears to have water damage (on the back as well). The colors of the box have faded & their is some stray writing by a child down in the left hand corner. These would work so well for serving at your next get-together but also display wonderfully with their beautiful floral motifs. I am really surprised to find no other sets like these for sale on the sites I frequent; seems this collection is quite rare! Information about Julia Bach the artist is as follows: Florence Julia Bach was a sculptor, painter, & pastel artist born in Buffalo in 1887. She began her art training at the Buffalo School of Fine Arts & continued at the Art Students League in New York, where she studied with William Merritt Chase & Frank Vincent Dumond. Afterwards, she spent several years abroad, received a diploma in sculpture from the Ecole des Beaux Art in Fontainebleu, & continued her studies in Italy, France, & Germany. As a member of the Buffalo Society of Artists, Bach won many exhibition awards between 1915 & 1924, including the Fellowship Prize in 1917 & 1922. She became a member of the BSA Council in 1926, the same year she was a member of the jury for the Awards & Fellowship Prize. Bach served as BSA President from 1929 to 1930. She also won the Syracuse Regional Purchase Prize in 1941, the Popular Prize at the Carnegie Institute in 1949, & Gold Medal at the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club in 1954. Bach primarily created portraits in both pastel & oil, & floral paintings that were sold at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York. She had two solo shows there in 1944 & 1951, where she reported that everything she sent was sold. When asked about modern art, she said, “In the modern field, in my
