Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France, 1925

Awarded a Cresson Scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1924, Badura traveled to European cities including Paris to hone his painting skills. Here, he captures a view of Notre Dame Cathedral towering over the city. A tinge of fall color permeates the atmosphere.  

On returning to the United States, Badura became a famous frame maker. He pioneered a style of gold- and silver-leafed frame that was favored by many of his artist friends, as can be seen throughout this gallery. Badura’s frames have a flat center rail that he incised with decorative patterns, flanked by an inner and outer border, perhaps inspired by the structure of Italian Quattrocento frames in the Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  

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