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Purple Plums
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: "C. P. Ream"
Exhibition history
Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Hyde Park: Past & Present, May 18–June 20, 1962, cat. Art Institute of Chicago, Art in Illinois: In Honor of the Illinois Sesquicentennial, June 15–Sept. 8, 1968, no cat. St. Louis Art Museum, Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, 1820–1940, Feb. 18–Apr. 10, 1977, cat. 76.
Publications
William M. R. French, Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects (Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), 192, cat. 321, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nnc1.ar00002402. Judith A. Barter and Lynn E. Springer, Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, 1820–1940, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Art Museum, 1977), cat. 76. Michael B. Emery et al., "Fruit in Graphic Art," (Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2013), (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Carducius Plantagenet Ream (American, 1838–1917)
- Date
- 1895
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40.6 × 55.9 cm (16 × 22 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Realism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Bequest of Catherine M. White
- Accession no.
- 1899.907
Provenance
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More by Carducius Plantagenet Ream in museum collections
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Open-access museum record · AT-00001068
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