Still Life

Still Life
Still Life
(American, 1877-1943)

Still Life

Dateca. 1929-1930
Mediumoil on cardboard
Dimensionsoverall: 25 3/4 × 18 3/4 in. (65.4 × 47.6 cm) frame: 29 × 22 in. (73.7 × 55.9 cm)
ClassificationPAINTINGS
Credit LineSBMA, Gift of Wright S. Ludington
Object number1950.3
Subject(s)
  • flower
  • fruit
  • still lifes
  • flowers
Collection
  • 20th century American
  • American
Sub-Collection(s)
  • Modernism
On View
Not on view
Label TextMarsden Hartley was an active participant in the New York avant-garde associated with Alfred Stieglitz’s legendary Gallery 291, credited with introducing American audiences to European Modernism. In emulation of the French artist, Paul Cézanne, he embraced still life as a means of pictorial investigation, developing his own geometric distillation of form. In this work, for example, Hartley fuses the table top and background into interlocking Cubist-like shards of color. Hartley often encoded his still-life compositions with personal meaning, referencing the most intimate parts of his life, including his grief at the loss of the man he loved to combat during World War I.
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Marsden HARTLEY
ca. winter 1933-1934
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1928
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Carl HOFER
1940s
Still Life
Severin ROESEN
by 1862
Jarrón azul de flores
Alfredo RAMOS MARTÍNEZ
ca. 1935
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Edward Henry POTTHAST I
ca. 1910
Paisaje 19
Gunther GERZSO
1958
Portrait of Mexico Today
David Alfaro SIQUEIROS
1932
Library Table
Jack Gage STARK
1910
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