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Fruit Piece  1860

by Hannah Brown Skeele

Hannah Brown Skeele earned acclaim for her delicate still-life compositions both in her home state of Maine and in Saint Louis, where she worked and exhibited in the 1860s. In [i]Fruit Piece[/i], her earliest known painting, a dessert course communicates refinement both in terms of the rare edibles themselves and in their careful presentation. In the mid-19th century pinea...
Size: 
50.8 × 60.6 cm (20 × 23 7/8 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago