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Still Life with Cantaloupe
About the Artwork
William Mason Brown launched his career as a portrait and landscape painter, but turned to still life subjects during the 1860s, which brought him success and renown. The various objects in this example are rendered in meticulous detail, capturing a range of textures from the soft fuzz of peach skin through the coarse webbing of cantaloupe rind.
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: "WM Brown. [WM in monogram]"
Provenance
(Sloan & Roman, New York)
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- William Mason Brown (American, 1828–1898)
- Date
- c. 1880
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 35.5 x 46 cm (14 x 18 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Accession no.
- 1969.20
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009854
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