Still Life with Fruit

Artist Severin Roesen American, born Germany (possibly Cologne), 1816–circa 1872

Datecirca 1855–1860

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions30 1/4 x 25 in. (76.8 x 63.5 cm)
Frame: 39 1/2 x 35 x 3 1/2 in. (100.3 x 88.9 x 8.9 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest), in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lee Smith Jr.

Object numberG.77.8.1

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Provenance**Created United States, ca. 1855–1860; collection of the artist. Colonel and Mrs. Clifford M. Rumsey, Swarthmore, PA; [Berry-Hill Galleries, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1977.Published ReferencesEdgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press,1983), illus. (b-w) 239.

Judith Hansen O'Toole, Severin Roesen, (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1992), listed (as Nature's Bounty: Still Life with Fruit) 134, illus. (b-w, as Fruit Still Life) fig. 47.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 231.

M. Therese Southgate, MD, "The Cover," JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 280, No. 8 (August 26, 1998), 679, illus. (color) cover.

John W. Coffey, entry for Still Life with Fruit, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 198, illus. (color).

“Highlights of the American Collection,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Spring 2009), discussed 11, illus. (color) 10.

John W. Coffey, entry for Still Life with Fruit, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 412, illus. (color) 413.

Barbara Schaefer and Anita Hachmann, eds., Es war einmal in Amerika: 300 Jahre US-Amerikanische Kunst (exhibition catalogue) (Köln: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Courboud, 2018), cat. no. 74, discussed 420, illus. (color) 421.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Recent Acquisitions," September 25-October 30, 1977.

Wilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, "18th and 19th Century American Art from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," June 20, 2003-February 22, 2004.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Highlights of the American Collection, February 15-August 2, 2009.

Cologne, Germany, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, “Es war einmal in Amerika: 300 Jahre US-Amerikanische Kunst,” November 23, 2018–March 24, 2019, cat. no. 74, illus. (color).
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