A Fruit-Bearing Tree; A Cedar of Paradise

1842 and 1846

Phebe A. Smith

Associated Names
Phebe A. Smith

Artist, American, active 1840s

The image shows a large central tree with dark green leaves and various red and purple fruits or flowers. The color palette includes dark greens, soft pinks, deep reds, and golds on a light cream background. There are large, colorful blooms in shades of red, pink, and yellow below the tree. Two golden fountains are at the base of the tree, and a decorative gold structure is to the right. A detailed script and small decorative elements in red and yellow cover the lower portion of the image.

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Shaker Village, Hancock, MA; Richard L. Mills, New Haven, CT; Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1972.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 63.

Bibliography

1969

  • Andrews, Edward Deming and Faith Andrews. Visions of the Heavenly Sphere. Charlottesville, VA: 1969, p. 50, 124.

1970

  • Hancock Shaker Village. The Gift of Inspiration: Religious Art of the Shakers. Hancock, MA: 1970, no. 32.

Inscriptions

lower center verso: Instrument. Phebe A. Smith / Water Vliet

Wikidata ID

Q64619418

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