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Still Life: Apples on a Plate with a Portrait of the Artist

1966

Albert Sangiamo

Associated Names

Albert Sangiamo

Artist, American, 1928 - 2018

Three apple slices on a plate with a swirling abstract design. The color palette includes shades of ochre, red, brown, green, black, gray, and small colorful accents. The apple slices overlap towards the upper left, while the plate's design is concentrated towards the right side with intricate patterns.

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Artwork overview

Medium

watercolor and graphite on spiral-bound wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Robert Scott Wiles)
Dimensions

sheet: 21.27 × 27.62 cm (8 3/8 × 10 7/8 in.)
Accession Number

2015.19.2807

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert Scott Wiles, Arlington, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1983

Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 238, no. 1588.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Sangiamo '66

Wikidata ID

Q64533985

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