Their frames were “like the sides of crude packing cases,” said another. The mainstream art establishment had long used elaborate gilt frames to make a work of art stand out from the competition.

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A long-neglected and formerly ornate wood-frame apartment house on Greenpoint’s Calyer Street will get a facade update that aims to bring back some of the structure’s former historical details, but ...

Its early frames are unrecorded, but when in 1965 it was donated to the museum by the dealer Justin Thannhauser it came in an ornate 17th-or 18th-century gilded frame.