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Home > Art > Untitled (Still Life with Artist’s Portfolio and Bowl of Fruit)

Untitled (Still Life with Artist’s Portfolio and Bowl of Fruit)

Artist

Andrew Dasburg

Date

c. 1914-18

Medium

Oil on canvas

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 20 x W- 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

France

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, Promised gift to The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

2004.03.01

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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Cubism still life
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About the Object

In this Cubist still life, Dasburg depicts an upturned tabletop upon which a bowl of fruit—grapes, pear, apples, lemon—rests on an artist’s portfolio. Sheaves of white paper fan out from the top of the folio, balanced by a white form that floats, almost cloud-like, in the lower right. The scene is composed of planes of color, pattern, and texture.

 

Additional Information

Contrast the Cubist influence of this work with Dasburg’s Apples, 1929, a Cézanne-inspired tabletop still life in the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The Artist;
Gustaf Hellstrom, Woodstock, NY;
By descent to Louise (Shoonmaker) Hellstrom, Woodstock, NY;
Irvington Bar, Woodstock, NY;
Descended in family to Private Collection, Woodstock, NY;
Private Collection, NY;
[Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM];

Tulsa, OK. Philbrook Museum of Art. American Galleries. June 2014-December 2014.

Tulsa, OK. Philbrook Museum of Art. From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection (February 8-May 3, 2015); Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix Art Museum (June 5-September 6, 2015); Santa Fe, NM. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (September 25, 2015-January 10, 2016).

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 25, 29, 30, 142-143, 263, ill. pp. 143-145.

Pochoda, Elizabeth. “Freedom and the abstract truth: Jan and Marica Vilcek’s collection of American modernist art,” The Magazine Antiques (May/June 2013), ill. p. 100.

O’Hern, John. “Modern Manor,” American Fine Art Magazine, September/October 2013, ill. p. 63.

Agee, William C. Modern Art in America: 1908-68. London: Phaidon, 2016, p. 77, ill. p. 78.

Wilkin, Karen. “America’s Modern Art: On William Agee’s Modern Art in American: 1908-1968,” The New Criterion, 34, no. 9 (May 2016), p. 51, ill. p. 46.

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