id:			144496
accession number:	1969.20
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.20
updated:		2023-03-11 20:50:48.963000

Still Life with Cantaloupe, c. 1880. William Mason Brown (American, 1828–1898). Oil on canvas; unframed: 35.5 x 46 cm (14 x 18 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1969.20

title:				Still Life with Cantaloupe
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creation date:			c. 1880
creation date earliest:		1875
creation date latest:		1885
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	America, 19th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	American Painting and Sculpture
collection:	American - Painting
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* William Mason Brown (American, 1828–1898)  - artist

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measurements: Unframed: 35.5 x 46 cm (14 x 18 1/8 in.)
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	inscription:	Signed lower right: "WM Brown. [WM in monogram]"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1969
	opening date:   1970-01-27T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1969</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Sloan & Roman, New York)
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Brown's early works were softly painted, romantic landscapes, but in the 1860s he turned almost exclusively to still lifes. He renounced the fluid style of his earlier landscapes and began to paint carefully contrived arrangements of fruit and flowers with almost photographic clarity. Brown became one of a number of painters to gain fame through reproductions made with the new printing process of chromolithography (a multicolor lithograph in which each color is printed from a separate stone or metal plate).
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