American 19-20th Century Still Life Painting (original) (raw)
American 19-20th Century Still Life Painting
(above: Selden Connor Gile,Still Life with Trees and Mountain, 1919, oil on canvas, 22.2 x 27.2 inches, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery (1999). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:
Audubon to Warhol: The Art of American Still Life (11/3/15)
Beautiful Things: Still Life Paintings by American Women 1880-1940 (1/15/14)
Things Wondrous & Humble: American Still Life; article by Martha R. Severens (11/4/13)
Things Wondrous & Humble: American Still Life (10/16/13)
Embracing Elegance, 1885-1920: American Art from the Huber Family Collection (10/12/11)
Fruits of Summer: Nineteenth-Century American Still Life (7/9/09)
Lone Star Still Lifes (5/5/09)
Collecting American Art - The Rubin Collection, essay by William H. Gerdts (4/9/03)
Also from the Web
American Encounters: The Simple Pleasures of Still Life is a 2015 exhibit at the High Museum of Art which says: "The masterpieces in The Simple Pleasures of Still Life spoke to the range of the still-life genre in the U.S. from the simple table top presentations of Raphelle Peale, Martin Johnson Heade, Joseph Biays Ord, and William Sidney Mount to the sly, trick-of-the-eye compositions by De Scott Evans, John Haberle, William Michael Harnett and George Cope." Accessed 12/18
Georgia O'Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life, an exhibit held November 2, 2014-February 15, 2015 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Includes information about the exhibit, Georgia O'Keeffe and still lifes. Accessed February, 2015.
(above: Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Tankard, Pipe, Matches and Biscuit, 1887, oil on canvas, 6.2 x 9.2 inches, Christie's. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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