Saturday, August 27, 2011

Fossil Ferns and a Lump of Coal

Fossil Ferns and a Lump of Coal 6"x 4"  $110.00
American still-life painting found limited acceptance in the latter part of the nineteenth-century, appealing neither to the sophisticated taste for the aesthetic nor to the popular taste for the anecdotal.  Yet in the postwar period there was a remarkable efflorescence of still-life painting by a host of artists.  My indebtedness to the group is apparent in the simple arrangement of the objects on a horizontal shelf-table against an undefined dark background.

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