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Still Life—Strawberries, Nuts, &c.
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right, on table edge, in black paint: "Raphaelle Peale Pinsct 1822"
Exhibition history
New York, Museum of Modern Art, American Realists and Magic Realists, 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, Raphaelle Peale, Still Lifes and Portraits, Jan. 15–Feb. 15, 1959, cat. 4, as Still Life; New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Mar. 2–31, 1959. Winston–Salem, NC, Public Library, A Rationale for Modern Art, 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 Still Life with Strawberries (organized by the American Federation of Arts). New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, American Art from Alumni Collections, Apr. 25–June 16, 1968, cat. 79, as Still Life with Strawberries. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 18th and 19th Century American Art from Private Collections, June 27–Sept. 11, 1972, cat. 49, as Bowl of Strawberries. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Three Centuries of American Art, Apr. 11–Oct. 10, 1976, cat. 213 (as Still Life with Strawberries). Tulsa, OK, Philbrook Art Center, Painters of the Humble Truth: American Still Life Painting, Sept. 27–Nov. 1, 1981, no. 111, no cat. no., as Still Life with Wild Strawberries; 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, Federal Philadelphia 1783–1825: The Athens of the Western World, June 5–Sept. 20, 1987. Art Institute of Chicago, Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, Nov. 10, 2013–Jan. 27, 2014, cat. 54; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22–May 18, 2014.
Publications
Dorothy C. Miller and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., eds., American Realists and Magic Realists, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, 1943), 9, 63, cat. 13 (ill.). Wolfgang Born, Still–Life Painting in America (Oxford University Press, 1947), 13–14, fig. 23 (ill.). Charles Coleman Sellers, Raphaelle Peale, 1774–1825: Still Lifes and Portraits, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Center, 1959), cat. 4. Alfred Frankenstein, The Reality of Appearance, The Trompe L’Oeil Tradition in American Painting (New York Graphic Society, 1970), 36–37, cat. 7 (ill.). William H. Gerdts and Russell E. Burke, American Still–Life Painting (Praeger Publishers, 1971), 31. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Three Centuries of American Art, exh. cat. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976), 255, cat. 213 (ill.), as Still Life with Strawberries. William H. Gerdts, Painters of The Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still-Life, 1801-1939 (University of Missouri Press, 1981), 59–60, no cat. no., fig. 2.9 (ill.), as Still Life with Wild Strawberries. Beatrice B. Garvan, Federal Philadelphia, 1785–1825, The Athens of the Western World, 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,” Magazine Antiques 134, no. 4 (Oct., 1988): 822–834, pl. 8 (ill.). Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., et al., Raphaelle Peale Still Lifes, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, 1988), 53, fig. 41 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1990–91 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1991), 1, fig. 1 (ill.). “Principales acquisitions des musées en 1991,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1478 (Mar., 1992): 71, fig. 243 (ill.). Lillian B. Miller, “Father and Son: The Relationship of Charles Willson Peale and Raphaelle Peale,” American Art Journal 25, nos. 1 and 2 (1993), 4–61 (ill.). Annie V. F. Storr, “Raphaelle Peale’s Strawberries, Nuts & c: A Riddle of Enlightened Science,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 21, no. 1 (1995): 24, 35 (ill.), https://www.jstor.org/stable/4102810. Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 137–8 (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 (2005): 34–35, fig. 2 (ill.), https://www.jstor.org/stable/4104472. Judith Barter et al., Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 64–66, 225, cat. 54, fig. 8 (ill.). James Rondeau, Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 2017) 44 (ill.). James Rondeau, Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 50 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Raphaelle Peale (American, 1774–1825)
- Date
- 1822
- Medium
- Oil on wood panel
- Dimensions
- 41.1 × 57.8 cm (16 3/16 × 22 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Realism
- Place
- Philadelphia
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Jamee J. and Marshall Field
- Accession no.
- 1991.100
Provenance
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.
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