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Look at the shading on the goblet and in the deep folds of the cloth, which give them weight against the dark space behind.
Hartley came back to still life again and again to try out new ideas, and in the 1910s he looked hard at Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso. Here a white goblet holds one pink flower in front of cream and blue cloth on a tilted table. On the back he wrote the date, 1 October 1917, and the words “qualities autumnal”.
Oil on composition board · 59.4 × 49.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Modernism · American modernism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Still Life No. 15
- Artist
- Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943)
- Date
- c. 1917
- Medium
- Oil on composition board
- Dimensions
- 59.4 × 49.5 cm (23 3/8 × 19 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.