Still Life with Crab Apples and Grapes

1888

Joseph Decker

Artist, American, 1853 - 1924

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 69-A

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    John Wilmerding Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 21 x 35.6 cm (8 1/4 x 14 in.)

  • Accession

    2020.162.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. James Piccolo [1917-1986], New Haven, Connecticut; purchased 1972 by Yale University Art Gallery; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, New York, 30 May 1986, no. 57, bought in); (Richard York Gallery, New York); purchased November 1987 by John Wilmerding;[1] gift 2020 to NGA.
[1] Details of the Yale University Art Gallery provenance were kindly confirmed by Anne Goslin, Senior Associate Registrar, in her e-mail of 3 February 2021 (copy in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1988

  • Variations on a Theme: Still Life Painting in America, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1988, no. 10

1990

  • Counterpoint: Two Centuriesof American Masters, HirschlSc Adler Galleries, New York, 1990, no. 16

2004

  • American Masters from Bingham to Eakins. The John Wilmerding Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004-2005, no. 5, repro.

Bibliography

1988

  • William H.Gerdts, Joseph Decker (1853-1924): Still Lifes, Landscapes and Images of Youth. Exh. cat. Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, 1988: n.p., as Grapes and Crab Apples.

1990

  • Richard York Gallery. An American Gallery. Vol. 6, no. 1. New York, 1990: unpaginated, no. 9, repro.

2004

  • Kelly, Franklin. "American Masters: The John Wilmerding Collection." American Art Review 16, no. 2 (April 2004): repro. 154, 175.

Inscriptions

lower right: J. Decker, 88

Wikidata ID

Q111603566

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