Still Life—Strawberries, Nuts, &c. by Raphaelle Peale
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Still Life—Strawberries, Nuts, &c.

Raphaelle Peale · 1822

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Mr. Feldman, Philadelphia, by 1940. James Graham and Sons Gallery, New York, by 1941. Robert C. Graham (1913–1994) and Edith Graham (1917–2003; born Edith Altschul), New York, by 1946; sold to Marshall Field V and Jamee J. Field (1947–2020; born Jamee Beckwith Jacobs), Chicago, 1982 [on loan to the Art Institute, 1982–1991]; given by them to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Museum of Modern Art, <em>American Realists and Magic Realists</em>, Feb. 10–Mar. 21, 1943, cat. 13; Buffalo, Albright Gallery, Apr. 5–May 5, 1943; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 1–30, 1943; San Francisco Museum of Art, Aug. 23–Sept. 19, 1943; Art Gallery of Toronto, Nov. 12–Dec. 19, 1943; Cleveland Museum of Art, Jan. 1–29, 1944.
  • Milwaukee Art Center, <em>Raphaelle Peale, Still Lifes and Portraits</em>, Jan. 15–Feb. 15, 1959, cat. 4, as <em>Still Life</em>; New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Mar. 2–31, 1959.
  • Winston–Salem, NC, Public Library, <em>A Rationale for Modern Art</em>, Oct. 1–21, 1959, cat. 14; MO, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, Nov. 2–22, 1959; New York, Time Inc., Dec. 7–18, 1959; Mansfield, OH, Kingwood Center, Jan. 3–24, 1960; MI, Midland Art Association, Feb. 5–25, 1960; Miami Beach Art Center, Mar. 10–31, 1960; Dallas, Southern Methodist University, Apr. 12–May 3, 1960; Seattle, Charles and Emma Frye Museum, May 15–June 6, 1960; San Francisco Museum of Art, June 16–July 17, 1960; Norwich, CT, Slater Memorial Museum, Oct. 10–30, 1960, as <em>Still Life with Strawberries</em> (organized by the American Federation of Arts).
  • New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, <em>American Art from Alumni Collections</em>, Apr. 25–June 16, 1968, cat. 79, as <em>Still Life with Strawberries</em>.
  • New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, <em>18th and 19th Century American Art from Private Collections</em>, June 27–Sept. 11, 1972, cat. 49, as <em>Bowl of Strawberries</em>.
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, <em>Three Centuries of American Art</em>, Apr. 11–Oct. 10, 1976, cat. 213 (as <em>Still Life with Strawberries</em>).
  • Tulsa, OK, Philbrook Art Center, <em>Painters of the Humble Truth: American Still Life Painting</em>, Sept. 27–Nov. 1, 1981, no. 111, no cat. no., as <em>Still Life with Wild Strawberries</em>; CA, Oakland Museum, Dec. 8, 1981–Jan. 24, 1982; MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, Mar. 2–Apr. 25, 1982; New York, National Academy of Design, May 18–July 4, 1982.
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, <em>Federal Philadelphia 1783–1825: The Athens of the Western World</em>, June 5–Sept. 20, 1987.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/1399/art-and-appetite-american-painting-culture-and-cuisine"><em>Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine</em></a>, Nov. 10, 2013–Jan. 27, 2014, cat. 54; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22–May 18, 2014.

Literature

Published references

  • Dorothy C. Miller and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., eds., <em>American Realists and Magic Realists</em>, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, 1943), 9, 63, cat. 13 (ill.).
  • Wolfgang Born, <em>Still–Life Painting in America</em> (Oxford University Press, 1947), 13–14, fig. 23 (ill.).
  • Charles Coleman Sellers, <em>Raphaelle Peale, 1774–1825: Still Lifes and Portraits</em>, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Center, 1959), cat. 4.
  • Alfred Frankenstein, <em>The Reality of Appearance, The Trompe L’Oeil Tradition in American Painting</em> (New York Graphic Society, 1970), 36–37, cat. 7 (ill.).
  • William H. Gerdts and Russell E. Burke, <em>American Still–Life Painting</em> (Praeger Publishers, 1971), 31.
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, <em>Three Centuries of American Art</em>, exh. cat. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976), 255, cat. 213 (ill.), as <em>Still Life with Strawberries</em>.
  • William H. Gerdts, <em>Painters of The Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still-Life, 1801-1939</em> (University of Missouri Press, 1981), 59–60, no cat. no., fig. 2.9 (ill.), as <em>Still Life with Wild Strawberries</em>.
  • Beatrice B. Garvan, <em>Federal Philadelphia, 1785–1825, The Athens of the Western World</em>, exh. cat. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1987), 82, cat. 230, fig. 50 (ill.).
  • Tom Armstrong, “The New Field–McCormick Galleries of the Art Institute of Chicago,” <em>Magazine Antiques</em> 134, no. 4 (Oct., 1988): 822–834, pl. 8 (ill.).
  • Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., et al., <em>Raphaelle Peale Still Lifes</em>, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, 1988), 53, fig. 41 (ill.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1990–91</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1991), 1, fig. 1 (ill.).
  • “Principales acquisitions des musées en 1991,” <em>Gazette des Beaux-Arts</em>, no. 1478 (Mar., 1992): 71, fig. 243 (ill.).

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