Cylindrical, C-shaped, and triangular forms are painted with flat areas of vivid pink, purple, navy, royal, and light blue, turquoise, white, black, and gray in this abstract, horizontal painting. A rectangular form, jutting into the picture from the lower left corner, suggests a table, on which the shapes are stacked. The table has square, gray legs and a black top surface. The inner surface of the one leg we can see is carnation pink. The objects on top are painted with precise, well-defined edges. Each form is made of two colors: one for a top surface, and another for the side surfaces.…
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Peinture/Nature Morte

painter Patrick Henry Bruce (American, 1881 - 1936)

c. 1924

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 72.4 × 91.4 cm (28 1/2 × 36 in.) ; framed: 85.7 × 104.5 × 7 cm (33 3/4 × 41 1/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1968)
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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