James Peale

American, 1749 - 1831

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painter from the United States (1749-1831)

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A speckled yellow apple and bunches of purple and green grapes are arranged next to an intricately pierced white bowl piled with more apples and grapes in this almost square still life painting. The objects sit on a sand-colored stone ledge, and the fruit gleams in bright light coming from the upper left. Sitting to the left of the basket, the yellow apple has brown spots and a worm hole near the top. In front of it, the green grapes partially cascade over the front edge of the ledge. The purple grapes lie in the shadow behind the apple. The white bowl has a wide, flaring mouth rimmed with dark blue, and sits to our right of center. It is pierced with four rows of narrowly spaced, undulating waves that spread out from a central eight-sided medallion. One red and two more yellow apples, one of which also has a small wormhole, sit along the lip of the bowl. They are topped by a cluster of green grapes framed by green leaves and a stem that angles into the upper right corner of the painting. The background is silvery gray to our right, where the light falls, and is in black shadow in the upper left.
James Peale, Fruit Still Life with Chinese Export Basket, 1824, oil on wood, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Evans, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1990.7.1

Fruit Still Life with Chinese Export Basket

James Peale · 1824 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1990.7.1

James Peale, A. T. Kerr, Esquire, 1798, watercolor on ivory, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Sarah A. Hagner), 2015.19.2480

A. T. Kerr, Esquire

James Peale · 1798 · watercolor on ivory ·  Accession ID  2015.19.2480

James Peale, Marcia Burns, 1797, watercolor on ivory, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Philip Hinkle), 2015.19.2478

Marcia Burns

James Peale · 1797 · watercolor on ivory ·  Accession ID  2015.19.2478

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John White

James Peale · 1783 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.98

Bibliography

1967

  • Sellers, Charles Coleman. "James Peale." In The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists, edited by Charles H. Elam. Detroit, 1967.

1975

  • "James Peale." In Four Generations of Commissions. The Peale Collection of the Maryland Historical Society. Baltimore, 1975: 31.

1981

  • Gerdts, William H. Painters of the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still Life 1801-1939. Exh. cat. Columbia, Missouri, 1981: 60-62.

1996

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker. "James Peale: Out of the Shadows." In Miller, Lillian B., ed. The Peale Family: Creation of a Legacy, 1770-1870. Exh. cat. Trust for Museum Exhibitions and the National Portrait Gallery. Washington, D.C., 1996.

1998

  • Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 43.