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An interior view with chairs, tables, and textiles in bold colors; bold foreshortening and varied planar angles and overlapping forms.
Still Life
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Still Life

Artist Preston Dickinson (American, 1889 - 1930)
Datec. 1920
MediumGouache on board
Dimensionsimage: 13 x 16 7/8 in. (33 x 42.9 cm)
frame: 18 7/8 x 22 7/8 in. (47.9 x 58.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, funds provided by the David A. Cofrin Art Acquisition Endowment
Object number2004.16.2
Collections
Visual DescriptionAn interior view with chairs, tables, and textiles in bold colors; bold foreshortening and varied planar angles and overlapping forms.
Drawing of architectural structures; depicts grain elevators in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Preston Dickinson
1924
Florida Water Tower
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Theresa Ferber Bernstein
c. 1918
Untitled
Untitled
Zwelethu Mthethwa
2000
Scrolling lotus design on the surface of the charger forms a swastika shape; six character mark on base. A large blue and white dish, the rounded sides rising from a channeled foot ring to a slightly everted rim, well painted in bright tones of underglaze blue on the interior and the exterior with a bold overall pattern of lotus scroll bearing large stylized blossoms.
Blue and White Charger with Lotus Design
Chinese Artist
Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Kangxi reign (1622-1722)
A collage of vintage handwritten documents with stamps and folded-up pages. To the right is a sketch of five overlapping bald profile heads. Below are four scratchy, linear sketches of an elderly face drawn from various angles.
Protokoll Nr. 1
Jiri Anderle
1984
A black and white composite photograph superimposing a room interior over a dense forest. A spiral form of bare branches circle around a bright central sky. The translucent room features a checkered floor, two chairs, and a console table with a mirror.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1978
Round, dome lidded box with knob and bold overall crackle celadon and underglaze blue; glazed foot interior. Large petal designed coordinated from dome-shaped lid through base. Small knob.
Blue and White Round Dome-lidded Seal Ink Box
Vietnamese
15th-16th century
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Vase with Scenes from the Novel Sanguo Zhi
Chinese Artist
Qing dynasty (1644-1911), late 18th century
Very soft blurred forms, some hard edges, looks like an out of focus photograph.
August Still Life
Clinton Adams
1956
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Suzy Frelinghuysen
c. 1943
Cubist inspired still life in earth tones of brown, red, black and green representing items on a desk including book, pipe, pitcher, bottle and box among other things.
Naturaleza muerta con libro abierto (Still Life with Open Book)
Augusto Torres
1968
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Walter Cole
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