Still Life (c. 1924): Art, History and Details

Still Life (c. 1924) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Preston Dickinson (American, 1891–1930).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Preston Dickinson’s composition presents a seemingly casual arrangement of eggplants and lemons amid a tabletop setting with a bowl, knife, and napkins. A loosely corked bottled beverage stands at left, and a lightly sketched chairback occupies an otherwise empty background.

Object facts

• Title: Still Life
• Date: c. 1924
• Creator attribution: Preston Dickinson (American, 1891–1930)
• Culture: America
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Framed: 75.5 x 91 x 5.5 cm (29 3/4 x 35 13/16 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 61.2 x 76.5 cm (24 1/8 x 30 1/8 in.)
• Collection: American - Painting
• Department: American Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1926.1664

A detail from the museum

Commonly thought to be vegetables, eggplants are technically berries.

Collection credit

Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Milliken, William M. "The Sixth Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 13:6 (June, 1926): 144-55.
• G. U. "Two Recent American Paintings Acquired for the Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 14:1 (January 1927): 9-11, 15.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.

View the collection record

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