Anna Pasqualucci

Work samples

American Brewery

Ye Olde AMERICAN BREWERY. Painted window screen in situ. Latex exterior house paint on anodized metal window screen, 2014. 20" W x 20" H
Windows of the Pagoda

WINDOWS OF THE PAGODA, aka Patterson Park Pagoda at Dusk. See-though window screen art dramatically changes with the ambient lighting. The magical old fashioned Baltimore street canvas allows for stark contrasts between the airy transparent evening sky and the hollow see-through atrium of the Padoga and it's solid structural frame. Latex/acrylic on fiberglass windows screen. 2018. Approximately 12"W x 15"H.
Chock Full 'o Nuts

CHOCK FULL 'O NUTS, aka "Father in a Can." A sculpted relief painted screen commissioned by film director Calvin Thomas for his thought provoking documentary about an unorthodox but captivating Catholic priest, "The Trouble with TQ." 2013. Approximately 16"W x 20"H.
Mondo Baltimore

MONDO BALTIMORE. You can walk or drive past and gaze upon this window screen painting of a quirky city skyline in Canton. Count Dracula and the Bride of Frankenstein stroll along Federal Hill while city rats check out their cell phone from a park bench overlooking the Harbor. Exterior latex paint on wire screen. 2014. Approx 4 ft x 4 ft.

About Anna

Anna Pasqualucci is one of only a handful of local artists who continue to embrace century old Baltimore folk art of window screen painting. Each hand painted window screen is a heart-felt work to be displayed in a gallery along the streets for all to enjoy. Anna treasures the unique character of the folk artsy form that is like no other. Her functional screen paintings allow the sun to shine on them so they glow with vibrant colors while letting a breath of fresh air to pass through them. At… more

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Covid-19 Therapy

Being engrossed in painting as well as viewing artwork during the pandemic can lift you up to another place and time, away from a scary reality, and into a world of peace and calm.

Painting soothes the soul in a troubled world.

Screen paintings in this post-pandemic collection are now displayed in homes from coast to coast, from our Delmarva shore, to Baltimore's Harbor, to the midwest city of old St. Louis, to the Rockies of Colorado and all the way to San Diego, California.

Domino Sugar Cat

Domino Sugar Cat screen appropriately lives in Locust Point, Baltimore, MD.
Domino Sugar Mama Cat

A feral grey tabby cat leans on a dock piling across the harbor from Baltimore's Domino Sugar factory and watches the water taxi depart into a brilliant cityscape sunset.

Painting is on a bonafide outdoor house window screen.
California Beach Dogs

Fun at the dog beach. Dogs play in the water and on the sandy beach while their owner strolls the shoreline and pet cats observe from a safe dry distance.

Painting is on a bonafide outdoor house window screen.
Genevieve Passing Seven Foot Knoll

A Friendship Sloop named Genevieve sails passed the Seven Foot Knoll. Seven Foot Knoll once welcomed and bid farewell to marine vessels as they sailed the mouth of the Patapsco River by the choppy Chesapeake Bay.

Painting is on a bonafide outdoor house window screen.
Hibiscus Hummingbird

Anna's Hummingbird flutters and gathers sweet nectar from elegant white pink-centered hibiscus.

Painting is on a bonafide outdoor house window screen.
White Egret

Pure white egret overlooking a calm Delaware marshland surrounded by colorful fall foliage.

Painting is on a bonafide outdoor house window screen.
St. Louis Busch Stadium Cityscape

St. Louis Busch Stadium Cityscape with the Gateway Arch pair with a Forest Park Hot Air Balloon screen on a house window in Missouri.
St. Louis Window Screens

Window Screens featuring the St. Louis Gateway Arch, Busch Stadium, the city skyline and the annual Forest Park Hot Air Balloon Race found their home in St. Louis, Missouri.
Breaching Humpback Whale

Black and white Humpback whale breaches on it's back out of the ocean as gracefully as a 30 ton creature can jump.

Painting is on a bonafide outdoor house window screen.
California Hummingbird Banner

6-ft fence banner is painted with exterior acrylic-latex house paints on heavy-duty vinyl clad pet-resistant screen to withstand the bright San Diego sunshine and the elements.

On the Stoop & On the Sill

Smiles for the neighborhood.
It's about the simple things in life.
Painted privacy screens conceal many hidden treasures behind them.

Mondo Baltimore

A pretty quirky city skyline. Count Dracula and the Bride of Frankenstein stroll along Federal Hill while city rats check out their cell phone from a park bench and more. Exterior latex paint on wire screen. Approx 4 ft x 4 ft.
Roland Water Tower

Roland Water Tower door screen resides in a Hampden home.
Maryland Pride

Vibrant Maryland painted screen in a traditional Federal Hill rowhome. Exterior latex/acrylic on metal window screen.
Skippin' Over the Ocean Like a Stone

Summer porch screens. Exterior latex/acrylic on metal window screen.
Pagoda Dogs

Winner of the "Most Attractive Painted Screen in (East) Baltimore," a contest run by the Baltimore Guide late summer 2013, approximately 56"H x 48"W is moving out of town this year. Exterior latex/acrylic on metal window screen.
Old Bay and Natty Boh

Exterior latex/acrylic on metal window screen. 27" x 30"
American Brewery

Painted window screen. Latex exterior house paint on anodized metal window screen, 20" W x 20" H
Pagoda Max

2x6 ft, Exterior latex/acrylic on fiberglass window screen.
Barn Doors

These trompe l'oeil painted sliding door screens conceal the treasures within. Latex exterior house paint on anodized metal window screen, total dimensions 53" W x 78" H.
Ghost of Al Capone

A life-size young Al Capone greets diners at Di Pasquale's Italian Marketplace. Funny story, Al came back to haunt me... he is painted on both sides of the door, both inside and out. Exterior latex/acrylic on metal door screen.

Nostalgic Baltimore

Window screen paintings are disappearing from our fast paced high tech world. The few screens that remain remind us of life in early and mid 20th century Baltimore.

Screen painting was once considered a working-class art, unrecognized as a true art form. In light of the immense joy and warmth, awe and wonderment, that painted screens bring to those who gaze upon them, their artistic significance is underrated.

The magic of painted screens remains in the hearts of many Baltimoreans today.

Acrylic or exterior latex/acrylic/enamel on metal or fiberglass window screen mesh.

Hollins Street Market

Hollins Street Market as it may have looked the mid-twentieth century.
Draft sketch of Hollins Market, c. 1950

Draft "sketch" of Hollins Market in brown acrylic paint
Payson Street Arabber

Screen painting rendition of an arabber at the corner Zeskind's hardware store, McHenry and S. Payson Street, c. 1950s.
Balmer Compilation

Compilation of things Balmer. Latex paint on fiberglass screen.
Early Morning Arabber

Window screen painting of an Arabber starting his daily journey threw the neighborhood.
The Ice Man Cometh

Days gone by. Remember the olden days when Grandmom called the refrigerator was called an "ice box." In her day, ice was delivered to the home for the "ice box."
Gwynn Oak Amusement Park

Memories of Gwynn Oak park on a window screen, with faux pane dividers. Latex paint on metal screen. Approximately 3 ft x 3 ft.
We All Scream for Ice Cream.jpg

Memories of the Good Humor bells ringing and children running to the ice cream truck on summer days. Latex paint on a 15" x 20" fiberglass window screen.
Bombardment of Ft. McHenry.jpg

History of Ft. McHenry in latex acrylic paint on a fiberglass screen. Wall art. Approximately 20" x 30."
Pop

This screen painting is a replica of one of my early screen paintings. The original still stands in the rowhome screen door on Eastern Avenue, two blocks east of Patterson Park. Both the original and replica screens belong to grandchildren of the arabber in the painting.

Seeing Baltimore in a Different Light

Anna sees window screen paintings in a new light. She has put a contemporary twist on Baltimore's century-old folk art.
The artist took advantage of both the transparent and the opaque qualities of the screen canvas. Why not see through and deep inside this magical disappearing folk art? Why not see beyond superfical surfaces of a painted window screen?

The brightness of back lighting will either magically reveal or conceal what's behind the mesh surface. Solid images of brick and mortar can sharply contrast against an ever-changing airy translucent backdrop of blue skies, sometimes with swirls of Van Gogh-like night stars, sometimes with white puffy clouds, sometimes with a colorful sunset or with delicate patterns of old lace. In waterfront scenes, reflections and translucence of water in Baltimore harbor or the Bay now become real. You can feel the fluidity.

My first see-through framed creation was commissioned for Highlandtown Merchants to present to Mrs Frank Zappa to commemorate the dedication of the Zappa statue on Eastern Avenue. More followed.

Framed screen art is acrylic or latex/acrylic on fiberglass window screen.

Hanover Street Bridge
Swell Front Rowhome

See-through art... solid brick walls and cement contrast the translucently open windows and the reflective sky. 8"W x 10" H
Harbor Morning

Transparent skies and reflective water frame the city buildings. Latex/acrylic on fiberglass window screen 5" x 13"
Old Baltimore Lace

Approximately 5"x 12" table-top screen art with translucent "see-through" sky painted of old lace. The glass encased painting shows off the magical transparency of a painted window screen. The character changes with the light.
Windows of the Pagoda

See-though screen art starkly contrasts airey transparent evening skies and hollow see-through atrium with the solid structural frame of the Pagoda. Latex/acrylic on fiberglass windows screen. aka "Patterson Park Pagoda at Dusk." 2018. Approximately 12"W x 15"H.
Old Baltimore Lace

The glass encased "see-through" painting shows off the magical translucency of a painted window screen. The lace painted sky becomes is revealed against a solid background, as in the next image. Latex/acrylic on fiberglass window screen Approximately 5"x 12"
PagodaBoh aka Bohemian Moon over Patterson Park

Nat Boh moonlight shines over the pagoda through transparent twilight skies Latex/acrylic on fiberglass window screen 6" x 8"
Domino's Tug

Solid masses of building and the sturdy tug set against the translucent sky and reflective harbor water. 8x10.
A Fly Went By

8x10 fly screen and earring holder
Starry Night Bromo

Transparent starry night skies set back against the stone Bromo Tower Latex/acrylic on fiberglass window screen 6" x 8"

Deception in Old Lace

An experiment in fooling the eye and never having to hang or wash curtains again.

Lace Curtains

The curtains are not hung in windows, but rather painted on window screens.
Kitten and Lace

Ghostly tabby cat climbs a door screen, shown indoors before the installation.
Peacock and Lace

You just gotta understand... a painted window screen.
Tiffany and Lace

window screen painting
C & O Railroad Cat

vintage C&O railroad mascot with heritage lace
Cat Climbing Window with Lace Curtains

A feline study in lace
Arsenic and Old Lace

A trompe l'oeil study in lace
Another Cattitude

Trompe l'oeil cat in a window
Cattitude

Morris the cat with trompe l'oeil lace curtains
Kitten and Lace

Catching a butterfly on a door screen.

Beyond functionality

Baltimore window screen paintings of and about town.

When I was a little girl, I remember riding through Baltimore city with my father. He would point out the colorful pictures on the windows of row houses. I would strain my neck and intently search over the car dashboard to view the mesmerizing painted screens, anxious to see what the next sequential window would have painted on it. Those old screens kept people from peeking inside the home and still let the warm summer breeze quench the heat in the hot summertime. Years later, the impression of those wondrous screens remains but with new functionalities.

Today commercially manufactured printed screen mesh advertisements are applied on vehicle and store windows. We see out from the inside while viewers gaze upon the ad from the outside. There had always been more to those old functional hand painted screens than meets the eye. Today's households are discovering new uses for the veil of a painted screen.

latex/acrylic on fiberglass or metal wire mesh

Painted Lawn Chairs

The Chesapeake Lightship docks by the Power Plant and a tugboat chugs from Domino Sugar in the Harbor.
Painted Lawn Chairs

Tight woven screen mesh chairs are similar to window screens.. a mesh is a mesh... painted on both sides.
Utilitarian Domino wall cover

Airey window screen wall art conceals thermostats
Domino and the Pride

A decorative painted window screen conceals unslightly wall thermostats and gadgets
Lost at Sea

acrylic on sculpted metal window screen 8" x 10"
Chock Full 'o Nuts

CHOCK FULL 'O NUTS, aka "Father in a Can." A sculpted relief painted screen commissioned by film director Calvin Thomas for his thought provoking documentary about an unorthodox but captivating Catholic priest, "The Trouble with TQ." 2013. Approximately 16"W x 20"H.
Pagoda Boh Patio Chair

Have a seat. The tight woven mesh paints like a window screen.
Sunset Calm

Painted screen wall art. Latex/acrylic on a vintage wood door screen insert. Approximately 24"W x 50"H
Fly swatters

Fly swatters: Miniature painted screens with a purpose
Santa's Coming

painted fireplace screen

BILLIE HOLIDAY on South Durham St.

A collection of window screen paintings commemorating the 200 block of South Durham St. where Billie Holiday grew up.
Artwork was part of a Community Revitization Project, under the Upper Fell's Point Improvement Association.
Damaged or replaced residential screen paintings are being renewed in 2021 and 2022.

Wishful Singing

Anna's rendition of a very young Billie Holiday. In her youth, she would scrub marble steps in her Fell's Point neighborhood for nickels and dimes to earn extra spending money, approx 3 ft x 3 ft.
Wishful Singing

Young Billie as the artist envisioned her singing and daydreaming by the window of a formstone alley rowhome, photograhed in situ
Billie and the Blues

Bluesy, woozy, and melodic. A colorized screen painting version of Billie in her down and out hazy days. The chameleon screen changes with the daylight and nightlife.
Billie and the Blues

A bluesy, woozy, and melodic Bille in the window. A colorized screen painting version of Billie in her down and out hazy days.
Bille Holiday Stardom

Singer Billie belts out a song in the house window where she was said to have resided in her youth. This was the screen painter's version of an album cover as requested by the homeowners.
Bille Holiday Stardom

Billie rises to sing at Carnegie Hall. A rendition of a popular photograph.
Billie Holiday screen replacement 2021

Original damaged and torn screen was replaced and repainted in 2021.
Billie Holiday on the Screen

Collection of portraits on a window screen canvas
Lady Day at the Royal

The screen painted rendition of a "Globe poster" is reminiscent of those that may have been seen around town back in Billie Holiday's early career. The colors complement the formstone house in which it is displayed on South Durham St, Upper Fells Point. Anna Pasqualucci collaborated with fellow screen painter John Oktavec to create the lettering for this compilation mock poster. John is a sign painter by trade and grandson of the founder of Baltimore's painted screen artform, William Oktavec. Images by Anna Pasqualucci. The basic design idea was requested by the homeowner.
Billie Holiday at the Royal

Lettering for this compilation mock poster painted on a window screen was a coordinated effort by screen painters Anna Pasqualucci and John Oktavec. John is a sign painter and grandson of the founder of Baltimore's painted screen artform, William Oktavec. Images by Anna Pasqualucci. The basic design idea was requested by the homeowner.

Centennial Screens

As Baltimore window screen painting was founded in 1913 by William Oktavec. He first painted the screen doors of his corner grocery store. The Painted Screen Society was awarded several grants that enabled screen painters to add new screens to historically relevant areas of Baltimore City in 2013.

Spirituality

Collington Avenue window screen painting
Red Mill, a rendition of an Oktavec painting

Collington Avenue window screen painting
Tranquility on the Farm in the City

Collington Avenue window screen paintings
Bless Our Rowhouse

Collington Avenue window screen paintings
Beautiful Savior

Collington Avenue window screen painting, Jesus in muted tones.
Tranquility on the Farm in the City

Collington Avenue window screen paintings
Tranquility on the Farm in the City

Collington Avenue window screen paintings
Spirituality

Collington Avenue window screen painting
Take Me Away

Collington Avenue window screen painting
Beautiful Savior screens

Collington Avenue window screen paintings, Jesus in muted tones

A Screen Painter's Dream

For the love of art!
Seaside scenes take you away.
The Hatteras spring weather and winds cooperated and the large Anderson window screen was beckoning to me, a screen painter's dream. I decided to spend much of my beach vacation painting a large window screen to gift to the Pea Island Gallery in Outer Banks, NC. The window screen commemorates the re-opening of the The Bodie Island Lighthouse for public tours after years of renovations. It just felt right.
As of 2019, before the pandemic closed Hatteras Island to visitors but after several hurricanes and nor'easters, the large window screens at the Pea Island Gallery remained in good condition.

A work in progress 2

underway
A work in progress 3

details
A work in progress 5

batten down the hatches and tie down the sails for the Hatteras winds ablowin'
Bodie Island Light

the great reward of seeing the fruits of my labor
Bodie Island Light

Home sweet home at the gallery for all the summer tourists and visitors to see. Maybe window number three is in my future.
brother meets sister screen

3 year old window screen from 2010 now has a mate.
Pride of Baltimore
Take Your Breath Away

Window screen painting of Florida beach. Latex paint on metal wire, approximately 5 ft H.
Peace at the Beach

A peaceful escape from the Pandemic 2020.
Sunset Calm

Latex paint on vintage metal screen. Approximately 48" H.

Migration to the Outer Banks

It's a true test of time.
Screen painting was introduced to the Outer Banks summer 2010. They withstood Hurricane Irene in this experiment of screen against harsh environment, natural sand-blasting, salt air, blazing sun, flooded roads and parking lots, and high winds. Once again in 2012, Hurricane Sandy has tested the strength of the painting. I have been studying the wear and tear by the elements annually. The screens were holding up very well as of spring 2018.
A 7 foot metal screen painting was installed in an art gallery window and a small heavy duty painted pet screen was installed in a restaurant window in Rodanthe, NC. Many thanks go to Master Screen Painter John Oktavec, to the Kim of the Pea Island Art Gallery, and to my good neighbor for helping with this project.

Seeing through the painted screen

Looking out the Pea Island Gallery painted screen
installed screen

Screen installed in the gallery window.
installation

Installation of the art gallery screen on site in Rodanthe.
completed painting

Finished screen was treated with clear-coat UV protection at my Maryland studio.
screen in progress

85" screen painting in progress
Bodie Island Light

Bodie Island Lighthouse painted screen joins it's sister screen (3 ft W x 7 ft H, painted and installed at Pea Island Art Gallery, May 2013),
Bodie Island Light

Bodie Island Lighthouse painted screen a new addition to the gallery facade. (3 ft W x 7 ft H, painted and installed at Pea Island Art Gallery, May 2013),
Pea Island Art Gallery

"Outer Banks Test Site" The screen painting survived it's first Hatteras winter and Hurricane Irene's wrath and winds in September 2011!
Uncle Pauly's Rodanthe Surfer

Surfers at the Rodanthe Fishing Pier. Exterior acrylic enamel on durable pet resistant painted screen for Uncle Pauly's Restaurant. approximately 18"x28"
Rodanthe Surfer

Beachy painted window screen survived several hurricanes on Hatteras Island and is fairing well in 2018.