Peaches
Artist
Thomas Worthington Whittredge
(American, 1820-1910)
Date1894
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 15 1/2 x 22 1/4in. (39.4 x 56.5cm)
ClassificationsPAINTINGS
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Terms
Object number65.28
Description On View
Not on viewCollections
CopyrightNo known copyright restrictions.
Label TextPeaches is a still life in the form of a “bough picture,” in which the fruit remains more naturally on the tree rather than set onto a table in an interior (although Whittredge undoubtedly painted the canvas in his studio). The still life subject matter is somewhat unusual for the Whittredge, who was renowned as a landscape painter.
Peaches is a later painting for Whittredge. As a younger man, he had traveled extensively in Europe between 1849 and 1859, studying art and living in Dusseldorf, Switzerland and Italy, in the company other expatriate Americans. Later in life he toured the American west and Mexico. Whittredge’s sketchbooks (which can be viewed online at the Archives of American Art website, www.aaa.si.edu) are filled with the landscape formations, architecture, figures, animals, and birds that inspired his imagination.
Mary E. Murray, 2011
