Mottled, geometric shapes painted in shades of peanut brown, beige, grass and spruce green, smoky gray, golden and buttercup yellow, and topaz and lapis blue are arranged across this wide, horizontal, abstract painting. Two black half-moon forms to the left are openings to a pair of stylized watering cans. Two tools on brown handles suggest a rake and a scythe at the center of the composition, and a sickle lies on a field of green and tan between the watering cans and rake. Behind this and to the left, a rectangle with a downward-scalloped, terracotta-orange top edge is reminiscent of a…
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The Watering Can (Emblems: The Garden)

Roger de La Fresnaye (French, 1885 - 1925)

1913

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 88.9 × 200.66 cm (35 × 79 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CMC
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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