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Fruit Piece

Hannah Brown Skeele · 1860

Provenance

Ownership history

Edgar Ames, Esq., St. Louis, 1860; to Lucy Semple Ames, 1861; by descent through family. Sold, Barridoff Galleries, Portland, ME, August 6, 1997, lot 183, as Fruit. With Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, by 2000; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2001.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Saint Louis, Western Academy of Art, First Annual Exhibition, 1860, cat. 303.
Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/1399/art-and-appetite-american-painting-culture-and-cuisine">Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine</a>, Nov. 10, 2013–Jan. 27, 2014, cat. 62; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22–May 18, 2014.
St. Louis Art Museum, Art Along the Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration, Oct. 3, 2021–Jan. 9, 2022, cat. 34 (ill.).

Literature

Sarah E. Kelly, “Fruit Piece,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, no. 1 (2004): 12–13 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, "True to the Senses and False in Its Essence: Still–Life and Trompe l'Oeil Painting in Victorian America," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 31, no. 1 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2005): 37 (ill.).
Judith Barter et al., Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 85–87, 226, cat. 62, fig. 6 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), 18, fig. 8 (ill.).

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