The Table, Wellfleet, Massachusetts

1981

Joel Meyerowitz

Associated Names
Joel Meyerowitz

Artist, American, born 1938

A wooden table is covered with art supplies, including sketchbooks, paintbrushes, and ink bottles. Also on the table is a plate with food remnants and a fruit bowl containing apples and pears. The image features a warm, earthy color palette with browns and beiges, as well as vibrant reds and yellows of the fruit. In the foreground, an opened sketchbook displays artistic sketches, with a bowl containing a lemon slice to the left. A rattan chair is to the right, with an open book and a box of colored pencils nearby against rustic wooden paneled walls in an enclosed porch. Greenery is visible through the windows.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chromogenic print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 59.3 × 47.1 cm (23 3/8 × 18 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 60.7 × 50.8 cm (23 7/8 × 20 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.153.13


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joel Meyerowitz, New York; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York), 2015; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in black ink: Joel Meyerowitz; by unknown hand, lower left in red ink perpendicular: PL 28F 1157; lower right in black ink: 1981


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