The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 8, 2024

Still Life with Cantaloupe

Still Life with Cantaloupe

c. 1880
(American, 1828–1898)
America, 19th century
oil on canvas
Unframed: 35.5 x 46 cm (14 x 18 1/8 in.)
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1969.20
Location: not on view

Description

Brown's early works were softly painted, romantic landscapes, but in the 1860s he turned almost exclusively to still lifes. He renounced the fluid style of his earlier landscapes and began to paint carefully contrived arrangements of fruit and flowers with almost photographic clarity. Brown became one of a number of painters to gain fame through reproductions made with the new printing process of chromolithography (a multicolor lithograph in which each color is printed from a separate stone or metal plate).
  • (Sloan & Roman, New York)
  • Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).
  • {{cite web|title=Still Life with Cantaloupe|url=false|author=William Mason Brown|year=c. 1880|access-date=08 May 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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