Vintage tin from Canco, image boy with hoop and pigeons

Vintage tin from Canco, image boy with hoop and pigeons.

• Manufacturer: Canco
• Manufacturing date: 1940-1950

Description
Rare rectangular tin with a loose lid. The decoration of this tin consists of a red-brown background with gold-colored details of various types of fruit on the sides such as; apples, pears, cherries, apricots, pineapple and more ...

On the lid an image of a boy with a hoop on which a number of turtledoves are perched. The whole is strongly reminiscent of paintings by the French painter "Maxfield Parrish". The image is again decorated with gold-colored golden details of fruit.

The tin is marked with "Canco" at the bottom.

Condition
This tin is in a vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Pictures are part of the description.

Size

• Height: 7.5 cm.
• Length: 15.5 cm.
• Width: 9 cm.

Maxfield Parrish (July 25, 1870 – March 30, 1966) was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery. His career spanned fifty years and was wildly successful: his painting Daybreak (1922) is the most popular art print of the 20th century.

Parrish's art is characterized by vibrant colors; the color Parrish blue was named after him. He achieved such luminous color through glazing. This process involves applying alternating bright layers of translucent glaze separated by varnish over a base rendering. Parrish usually used a blue and white monochromatic underpainting.

Parrish used many other innovative techniques in his paintings. He would take pictures of models in black and white geometric prints and project the image onto his works. This technique allowed for his figures to be clothed in geometric patterns, while accurately representing distortion and draping. Parrish would also create his paintings by taking pictures, enlarging, or projecting objects. He would cut these images out and put them onto his canvas. He would later cover them with clear glaze. Parrish's technique gave his paintings a more three-dimensional feel.

The outer proportions and internal divisions of Parrish's compositions were carefully calculated in accordance with geometric principles such as root rectangles and the golden ratio. In this Parrish was influenced by Jay Hambidge's theory of Dynamic Symmetry.

Canco
The American Can Company was a manufacturer of tin cans. It was a member of the Tin Can Trust, that controlled a "large percentage of business in the United States in tin cans, containers, and packages of tin." American Can Company ranked 97th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts. During its peak of productivity, the American Can Company employed up to 800 people from the surrounding neighbourhoods. It was formerly a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1959–1991, though after 1987 it had renamed itself Primerica, a financial conglomerate which had divested itself of its packaging arm in 1986.

Primerica, after it was merged with Sanford I. Weill's Commercial Credit Company, would form the basis of what would become Citigroup.

The American Can Company had its headquarters at the Pershing Square Building in Manhattan, New York City until 1970, when it moved into a Greenwich, Connecticut facility, which had been developed on 150 acres (61 ha) of wooded land in the late 1960s. In the early 1980s American Can renamed itself and ended its operations in Greenwich.

The American Can Company was incorporated in 1901

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