| Maker(s): | Porter, Fairfield (attributed to)
| | Culture: | American (1907 - 1975)
| | Title: | Still Life with Suspended Lamp
| | Date Made: | n.d.
| | Type: | Painting
| | Materials: | oil on paper mounted on canvas
| | Place Made: | United States
| | Measurements: | stretcher: 20 in x 16 in; 50.8 cm x 40.64 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | unsigned, undated
| | Accession Number: | SC 2012.1.17
| | Credit Line: | Gift of The Pokross Art Collection, donated in accordance with the wishes of Muriel Kohn Pokross, class of 1934 by her children, Joan Pokross Curhan, class of 1959, William R. Pokross and David R. Pokross Jr. in loving memory of their parents, Muriel Kohn Pokross, class of 1934 and David R. Pokross
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
round table with pink cloth under white shaded lamp near grey wall, table holds pitcher, blue bowl on lemons, glass and other dishes all hastily sketched in
Label Text:
According to the catalogue raisonné of Fairfield Porter’s works (Joan Ludman, 2001), this unsigned and undated painting is a study for Still Life with Apples and Roses (1967) in a private collection. Still Life with Suspended Lamp has many of the same components as Apples and Roses, but the finished painting is more tightly composed and vertical in emphasis, with a tall vase of roses pulling the eye upward toward the lamp overhead. In the study, the bowl of fruit, pitcher, and assorted dishes are casually spread across a salmon-colored expanse of table cloth; the lamp seems to hover, untethered, in space. The black background of the study encourages the eye to read it as a night scene, while Apples and Roses is washed in sunlight, with architectural elements of the room—door frames and windows—abstractly represented by squares and long rectangles of blues and yellows.
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