In 2021, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art welcomed the donation of seventeen works of art created by Chuzo Tamotzu (1888–1975), an American artist born in Japan, through the generosity of Helena Katz ...

If still-life painting is the art of arresting decay, then it makes a lot of sense that Rachel Ruysch grew up to become one of the greatest still-life painters in the history of art. In the 17th ...

There’s a whimsical element in Liese Chavez’s paintings. A woman is baking a pie, but there’s feathers next to the pie, or a woman is holding a pear in her hand, but the pear is a house with a smoking ...

As genres go, Italian still-life painting isn’t a ghost town, exactly, but it evokes more than its share of dust and tumbleweeds. It’s just a fact that French fruit bowls and Dutch lemon peels get a ...

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Gerdts, William H., and Russell Burke, "American Still-Life Painting," New York: Praeger, 1971. Frankenstein, Alfred, "The Reality of Appearance: the Trompe L'Oeil Tradition in American Painting," ...