“You have to remember that the frame probably cost far in excess of what the picture cost.” At the Getty--where specialists know that 18th century French frames can rank among the finest decorative ...

We don't always look at what provides the edging or border to a house or a garden or painting or photograph, but if the row of petunias or the carved wooden frame is missing, we notice it that ...

A COLLECTOR who saw some of my Mexican paintings at the San Francisco Museum of Art sent me a telegram: “I like your pictures. Who is your framer?” I replied that I had found in Boston a man who had ...