On View
Not on viewObject number1983/4.2
Zinnias and Fruit
Artist
William James Glackens
(American, 1870-1938)
Dateca. 1930
Mediumoil on board
Dimensionsframe: 23 × 19 1/2 in. (58.4 × 49.5 cm)
board: 15 7/8 × 12 3/4 in. (40.3 × 32.4 cm)
board: 15 7/8 × 12 3/4 in. (40.3 × 32.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Suzanne U. DeLano Parish in memory of her mother, Mrs. Dorothy Upjohn Dalton
Exhibition History"Still Lifes from the KIA Permanent Collection," KIA (Sept. 1994 - Jan. 1995).
"Two by Twenty: Artists in the KIA Collection," KIA (Sept. 3 - Dec. 5, 1996).
On loan to Grand Rapids Art Museum (Apr. 29, 1997 - Aug. 6, 1998).
"Still Lifes from the Permanent Collection," KIA Long Gallery (2002).
"Flowers in Art: Selections from the Collection," KIA Long Gallery (May 29 - Sept. 12, 2010).
"American Realism: Visions of America 1900-1950," Muskegon Museum of Art (May 11 - August 27, 2023); Flint Institute of Arts (September 9 - December 30, 2023); KIA (January 21 - April 14, 2024).
Label TextWilliam Glackens was a member of the Ashcan School, a
loose group of like-minded American artists that sought to
move away from academic realist styles in favor of
portraying everyday working-class life in urban cities.
Glackens was also inspired by the Impressionist paintings he
saw while traveling in France.
Zinnias and Fruit, with its still life subject matter and small
composition, is indicative of the works he created later in
life. This painting is not an academic take on a still life.
Instead, Glackens intentionally chose to skew the painting’s
perspective by flattening the table’s surface, which makes the
fruit seem as though it could slide right off and out of the
composition. ["American Realism" Exhibition Label, 2023]
