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Still Life Number 26: Silver Basket of Fruit
1857-185813 7/8 x 20 in. (35.2 x 50.8 cm)
Rubens Peale
United States (Philadelphia, PA, 1784 - 1865, Philadelphia, PA)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on tin
Credit Line:
Gift of Helen C. Ellwanger
Accession Number:
1964.40
Location: Not currently on view
In March, 1856, Rubens Peale wrote: “I painted all day on Number 15 and Number 26 as it has been very stormy today, nothing going on out doors…. After this, however, visitors came to stay and part of the house was given over to them.”
What is somewhat surprising is that Peale, a member of the illustrious family of artists and naturalists, did not begin painting until he was seventy-one. Until then, his work had focused on museums and farming. Considering the artist’s limited visual acuity, the texture and color of the fruit and basket in this quiet still life are all the more remarkable.
[Gallery label text, 2005]
What is somewhat surprising is that Peale, a member of the illustrious family of artists and naturalists, did not begin painting until he was seventy-one. Until then, his work had focused on museums and farming. Considering the artist’s limited visual acuity, the texture and color of the fruit and basket in this quiet still life are all the more remarkable.
[Gallery label text, 2005]
Provenance
Artist; to his son, Charles Willson Peale; to his daughter, Clara Elizabeth Peale (Mrs. Charles Karsner Mills); to her son, Albert Burd Mills; given to Helen Ellwanger, Rochester, NY, by 1947; given to the Gallery in 1964
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Riches for Rochester: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection 9/22/1965 - 10/31/1965
- In Medusa's Gaze: Still Life Paintings from Upstate New York Museums Memorial Art Gallery 12/7/1991 - 5/2/1993
- Silent Things, Secret Things: Still Life from Rembrandt to the Millennium 9/19/1999 - 1/2/2000
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Susan Dodge Peters, ed. Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection. New York, New York: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988.
- Article Author: Anderson, Patricia. Article Title: Rubens Peale's Still Life Number 26: The Chronicle of a Painting. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Issue Date: May 1986. Page Number: 2, Figure Number: 2
- Memorial Art Gallery. Handbook Supplement : acquisitions, 1962-68. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 1968.
- Article Author: Anderson, Patricia. Article Title: Rubens Peale's Still Life Number 26: The Chronicle of a Painting. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Porticus. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery Volume Number: VI Issue Date: 1983. Page Number: 32-36, Figure Number: 1
- Brighton-Pittsford Post. Pittsford, NY
- Where Art Thou?. Bridgeport, CT: WJ Fantasy Inc., 1993.
- Article Author: Sellers, Charles Coleman. Article Title: Rubens Peale: A Painter's Decade. Article Scope: Entry. Art Quarterly. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume Number: 23 Issue Date: 1960. Page Number: 147
- Selma Holo and Bernard Barryte. Silent Things, Secret Things: Still Life from Rembrandt to the Millennium. Albuquerque, NM: The Albuquerque Museum, 1999.
- Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. In Medusa's Gaze: Still Life Paintings from Upstate New York Museums. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1991.
- Article Author: Nurse, Susan. Article Title: Rubens Peale: Still Life Number 26: Silver Basket of Fruit. Article Scope: Chapter and reproduction. Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006. Page Number: 61-63
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Seeing America Inservice
Materials from a teacher in-service presentation Spring 2008
Seeing America
Chapter on Rubens Peale's Still Life Number 26, written by Susan Nurse.