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Bayard has painted a still life of a blue vase of flowers on the end table. A small wooden box sits next to the vase. The table, box, and wall behind the vase all are a deep reddish brown; this color makes up much of the photo. The flowers in the…

Some elements of this watercolor are abstract and patterned: the green leaves at left, the tablecloth, wallpaper background, and even the vase’s outline. Other elements, however, show careful attention to modeling and texture, like the orange. Palter…

Winograd uses a post-impressionist framework to depict household objects and the geometry of their surrounding space. Shapes are disrupted by vertical lines (like the pears and pitchers) or become radically abstracted (like green leaves as…

Depicted is the landmark Bethesda Fountain located in New York City's Central Park. The fountain is adorned by a bronze statue with small figures that appear to support the winged figure. Bethesda is a biblical reference to a pool that is believed to…

The location of this painting isn’t clear: there’s no identifiable “mid-country highway,” and a “mid-county” highway in Maryland doesn’t seem to fit the landscape. Here, we look at hilly terrain under a cloudy sky that have rendered the mountaintops…

This complex still life plays with how the natural world makes its way into artistic forms and representation. A grouping of fruit at upper left is echoed in the fabric’s shapes at lower right, as with the bell pepper’s distinctive shape. A pear at…

A simple still life (perhaps deceptively so) includes as its ostensible objects a Grecian vase, flowers, and red grapes. Whether intentional or not, each element evokes a somewhat different artistic tradition: classical sculpture, informal nature in…

More than a dozen species of fruit and flowers are mounded on a bed of grass. The painting's upper half, a skillfully mottled background, is crucial for establishing the space necessary to make sense of the lower half--without it, those objects…

Several stems of pink and white gladiolus are displayed in a pictorial vase, whose unusual scene gestures toward a sailboat alongside a coastal mountain range. Below them on the table are apples, an orange, and a grapefruit. A warm light illuminates…

On a plain table is placed a bowl of pears and an Italian jug, apparently that same one as appearing in his “Fruit in a Basket" still life. In the jug, we see a bouqet of roses. Light from the ride side of painting casts shadow seemingly upon a wall…