The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Garden Variations, Orange and Yellow

Garden Variations, Orange and Yellow

1977
(American, 1918–2013)
Overall: 152.4 x 177.8 cm (60 x 70 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

As a child, O’Sickey attended Saturday classes in illustration here at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Description

Joseph O’Sickey’s most celebrated canvases, such as Garden Variations: Orange and Yellow, are hybrid still life and landscape subjects that he arranged and painted in his backyard. A frequent motif in this body of work is a cloth-covered table prepared for entertainment that takes center stage. Here, the table displays a bowl of fruit, vases of flowers, and bottled beverages. As this painting’s title suggests, bold color is a prominent compositional feature, creating a festive feeling appropriate for an informal outdoor gathering.
  • Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “Color, Sensation, and Memory: Themes in the Keithleys’ gift and promised gift.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 62, no. 3, 2022: Cover, 4-7. Reproduced: Cover, P. 2.
  • Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
  • {{cite web|title=Garden Variations, Orange and Yellow|url=false|author=Joseph O'Sickey|year=1977|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.171