Flower Still Life

Nakagawa--Flower Still Life.jpg
NakagawaKikuta - Flower Still Life.JPG

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Groups of like flowers, often in threes, are gathered into a roughly symmetrical bouquet along its vertical axis. The planter has no visible pattern; the wallpaper behind is defined via colors instead of pattern. Judging from highlights upon the planter and a shadow at right, sunshine filtering in from the left is quite strong.

About the Artist: We haven’t located much reliable information about this artist. He exhibited his work at the Salons of America (1928), Chrysler Gallery (1932), and the Municipal Art Committee (1936). Ruth L. Benjamin described him as painting “portraits and still life, but seems to be at his best in landscape work” (Parnassus 7.5 [1935]: 15). He may have lived in Los Angeles beginning in the late 1930s. 2 more images at FAP.

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Nakagawa, Kikuta H., b. 1888

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Oil painting

Physical Dimensions

19.5 x 23 in.
Condition: surface dirt, marked on right side

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