Spencer Selections: Still Lifes

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

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Spencer Selections: Still Lifes
Rachel Straughn-Navarro, curator
Kristina Walker, curator
January 7, 2019–December 31, 2019
mobile app tour

Welcome to the Spencer Museum of Art! This tour will explore different still lifes throughout the Spencer’s galleries. There are eleven works in this tour, but please feel free to engage with other works along the way. Each entry in this tour is accompanied by a brief description of the distinguishing features of each still life, and multimedia resources to help you dive deeper into the artworks. This tour should take approximately 45 minutes and starts in the exhibition 20/21, to the right of the top of the stairs or the elevator. Be sure to also visit the exhibition, Drawing Studio: Still Life in the Larry & Barbara Marshall Family Balcony until February 10, 2019.

Works of art

Still Life with Violin and Engraving of Arcangelo Corelli, Dutch School
Dutch School
Still Life with Dog and Fruit, Cristoforo Monari
Cristoforo Monari
Still Life with Dog and Fruit, late 1600s–early 1700s
Still Life with Tube of Paint, Louis Marcoussis
Louis Marcoussis
Still Life with Dress Form, Jan Matulka
Jan Matulka
Still Life 02 - Orchid, Wu Chi-Tsung
Wu Chi-Tsung
untitled (still life with yellow bowl), Beatrice Mandelman
Beatrice Mandelman
Still Life with Cup and Spoon, Harold Weston
Harold Weston
Three Hemispheres, Barbara Hepworth
Barbara Hepworth
Haunted by the Ghosts of Our Own Making, Hollis Sigler
Hollis Sigler
Rome Studio, Philip Guston
Philip Guston
Rome Studio, 1971
Around the Cake, Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud