Still Life with Cantaloupe (c. 1880): Art, History and Details

Still Life with Cantaloupe (c. 1880) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is William Mason Brown (American, 1828–1898).

The work and its context

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

William Mason Brown launched his career as a portrait and landscape painter, but turned to still life subjects during the 1860s, which brought him success and renown. The various objects in this example are rendered in meticulous detail, capturing a range of textures from the soft fuzz of peach skin through the coarse webbing of cantaloupe rind.

Object facts

• Title: Still Life with Cantaloupe
• Date: c. 1880
• Creator attribution: William Mason Brown (American, 1828–1898)
• Culture: United States
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Unframed: 35.5 x 46 cm (14 x 18 1/8 in.)
• Collection: American - Painting
• Department: American Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1969.20

A detail from the museum

Each peach, raspberry, and chestnut in this composition is painted from a different angle.

Collection credit

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

View the collection record

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