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Colorful gourds on a platter on a table with chair top visible.
Gourds
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Gourds

Artist Florence Kent Hunter (American, 1917 - 1989)
Publisher/Publishing House Works Progress Administration - Federal Arts Project , NYC Studio (1935 - 1943)
Date1936-1943
Place of originNew York, New York
MediumColor wood engraving
Dimensionssheet: 18 x 13 7/8 in. (45.7 x 35.2 cm)
image: 14 x 10 in. (35.6 x 25.4 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineCourtesy of the Fine Arts Program, Public Buildings Service, U.S. General Services Administration, commissioned through the New Deal Art Projects, with gratitude to Dr. and Mrs. Corbin S. Carnell, in memory of E. Muriel Adams.
Object numberL2012.54.35
Collections
Visual DescriptionColorful gourds on a platter on a table with chair top visible.
A color print of a stylized interior showing a seated person in a pink shirt and red skirt holding a white object. A dotted round table with three cups and saucers stands prominently in the foreground.
Interior
Florence Kent Hunter
1936-1943
A color print of a seated figure with an angular face, wearing a teal and peach hat sitting in an interior. To the right is a red repeating floral pattern.
Visitor
Florence Kent Hunter
1935-1943
Untitled
Untitled
Rockwell Kent
c. 1927-1928
A framed still life painting with an orange Chinese lantern plants in a vase, bottles of golden liquid, a bowl holding purple eggplants, braided red onions, dried corn, and small gourds, set against a vibrant background of autumn trees.
October
Janet Fish
2001
Man standing on ship, leaning on mast, arms crossed, gazing up at the stars.
Man at Mast
Rockwell Kent
1929
A woman with one arm stretched up above her head is looking out from the edge of a cliff or hillside. Her bare feet are at the base of a sawed off tree trunk.
Farewell
Rockwell Kent
1931
A scene in a restaurant, a waiter holding a platter of food speaks to two men dining at a table.
"Monsieur veut-il des crepes?"
Honoré Daumier
1855
Small tubular gourd wider at top, narrowing as it curves around to app. 1/4" diam. At opening plaited fiber wraps around gourd and attached to plaited string handle.
Penis gourd
New Guinean
last half 20th century
double-gourd shaped censer with dragons on sides, handle, and openwork top
Gourd-shaped Censer with Handle
Chinese Artist
Qing dynasty (1644-1911), 17th-18th century
Ireland Reef
Ireland Reef
Rockwell Kent
1926
Coconut Grove
Coconut Grove
Florence Baran Wise
1940
Fishing Place
Fishing Place
Florence Hazeltine
undated

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