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Twigs of a magnolia tree with light green, glossy leaves and three cream-white blossoms lie on a sapphire-blue cloth in this horizontal still life painting. Brightly lit from our left, the blossoms and leaves nearly fill the composition, and the cut ends lie on the fabric to our right. The blue fabric cascades from the upper left and across the table or ledge. The three flowers are in various stages of bloom. The tightest bud is to our left, overlapped by a stem and the tender, unfurling leaves of a branch. The blossom next to it, at the center, is starting to open. The petals of the third…

Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth

Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819 - 1904)

c. 1890 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of The Circle of the National Gallery of Art in Commemoration of its 10th Anniversary

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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