Bowdoin College Museum of Art | - Still Life: Peaches and One Pomegranate

Preview image of work. graphite on off-white wove paper, Still Life: Peaches and One Pomegranate 11100

1993.38

Recommend keywords

Help us make our collections more accessible by providing keywords to describe this artwork. The BCMA uses the Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus to provide consistent keywords. Enter a keyword in the field below and you will be prompted with a list of possible matching AAT preferred terms.

Still Life: Peaches and One Pomegranate

Export record as: Plain text | JSON | CDWA-Lite | VRA Core 4

Artist

Marsden Hartley (Lewiston, Maine, 1877 - 1943, Ellsworth, Maine)

Title

Still Life: Peaches and One Pomegranate

Creation Date

1927

Century

20th century

Dimensions

24 5/16 in. x 18 3/4 in. (61.75 cm x 47.63 cm)

Object Type

drawing

Creation Place

North America, United States, Maine

Medium and Support

graphite on off-white wove paper

Credit Line

Museum Purchase, George Otis Hamlin Fund

Copyright

Public Domain

Accession Number

1993.38

Marsden Hartley, the Maine-born modernist closely associated with the circle of friends around Alfred Stieglitz in New York, lived an itinerant life that brought him in contact with diverging artistic inspirations. The ponderous “Still Life: Peaches and One Pomegranate” is a marked departure from many of Hartley’s earlier, expressionist works. During the 1920s, he traveled to Aix-en-Provence, France, where he immersed himself in the works of Cezanne and produced multiple drawings of still lifes and landscapes that privileged simplicity of form and investigated spatial relations.