Vase of Flowers

1875

George Cochran Lambdin

Associated Names
George Cochran Lambdin

Painter, American, 1830 - 1896

This painting depicts a large ceramic vase filled with various flowers such as white peonies, blue and white irises, pink roses, and red fuchsias. Between these flowers are dark green leaves. The vase is white with a blue decorative design, and it sits on a pale green cloth with gold patterns. Some scattered pink petals rest on the cloth around the vase. The wall behind the vase is dark brown.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts

  • Dimensions

    overall: 61 x 51.4 cm (24 x 20 1/4 in.)
    framed: 76.84 × 66.04 × 6.99 cm (30 1/4 × 26 × 2 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2003.38.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paul Lane, TIvoli, New York, 1954. Possibly James H. Ricau [1916-1993], New York;[1] William H. [1929-2020] and Abigail Booth Gerdts, New York, by at least 1966;[2] gift (partial and promised) 2003 to NGA.
[1] William Gerdts recalls that the Lambdin, or another painting, may have been the painting given to him by Ricau after Gerdts located for him a lost painting by Wright of Derby. See Gerdts' introduction in For Beauty and for Truth: The William and Abigail Gerdts Collection of American Still Life; exh. cat., Mead Art Museum, Amherst College and Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York; Amherst, 1998: 17.
[2] William Gerdts lent the painting to a 1966 exhibition.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • Mid-Nineteenth Century American Painting from the Collections of Henry M. Fuller and William H. Gerdts, Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, 1966, no. 39, repro., as Flowers in a Vase.

1968

  • The American Vision: Paintings 1825-1875, The [New York] Public Education Association at M. Knoedler and Co., Hirschl and Adler Galleries, and Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, 1968, no. 45, repro. (shown at M. Knoedler and Co.).

1976

  • Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976, no. 341, repro.

1981

  • Painters of the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still Life, 1801 – 1939, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa; Oakland Art Museum; Baltimore Museum of Art; National Academy of Design, New York, 1981-82, plate 12.

1998

  • For Beauty and For Truth, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst; Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1998, unnumbered catalogue, pl. 6.

Bibliography

1971

  • Gerdts, William H., and Russell Burke. American Still-Life Painting. New York, 1971: 92, pl. XI.

1981

  • Gerdts, William H. Painters of the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still Life 1801-1939. Columbia, 1981: 123-125, pl. 12.

Inscriptions

lower right: Geo. C. Lambdin 1875

Wikidata ID

Q20188805

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