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Nature Study,

Still Life with Roses and Fruit,

Along with other painters of urban scenes, William Glackens embraced a brushy and impromptu style. Following his 1895 trip to Europe, he shifted to lighter subjects and a brighter palette, as in this charming arrangement of flowers and fruit. The objects on the table are of less interest to the artist than the colors and […]

Still Life with Shells,

This serene painting of exotic seashells is particularly unusual for early American art in both subject and presentation. Shells were rarely featured outside of scientific illustration. Joseph Biays Ord’s choice of subject may reflect the new fashion for shell collecting, and he skillfully renders each specimen with scientific precision. By arranging the shells clustered on […]

Seaweed No. II,

Gardenia,

The vivid pencil drawing Gardenia is suggestive not only of Joseph Stella’s mastery of the color pencil medium, but also of the diversity of his subject matter and representational style. Stella turned to floral subjects around 1919 after spending time in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. Flowers remained a central theme for the artist, both as […]

Red Raspberries on a Forest Floor,

William Mason Brown challenges the expectations of still life by stripping the composition of any manmade objects, such as porcelain dishware or ornate table linens, instead emphasizing the raspberries in exquisite detail on a bed of grass and dirt. Brown’s almost hyperrealist rendering suggests his commitment to creating images of nature that were […]

Still Life of Roses,

A Pair of Spectacles,

With this life-sized depiction of spectacles hung casually by string on a nail, George Cope offers a visual metaphor for the act of looking. As the viewer struggles to optically reconcile the flat depiction with the image’s deceptive realism, Cope wittily presents the glasses, should their aid be required.

Still Life with Peanuts,

White Tulips,

One of the leading American early modernists, Charles Sheeler trained under William Merritt Chase at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts before traveling to Paris in 1909. During his two months in the French capital, he encountered the work of avant-garde painters such as Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso. White Tulips, a rare early still […]