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The image shows a large blue and grey bowl filled with various fruits, including grapes, peaches, and a pineapple. The color palette consists of blues, greens, yellows, oranges, and browns. The bowl is placed on a surface with the fruits and foliage overflowing in all directions.
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The image shows a large blue and grey bowl filled with various fruits, including grapes, peaches, and a pineapple. The color palette consists of blues, greens, yellows, oranges, and browns. The bowl is placed on a surface with the fruits and foliage overflowing in all directions.

National Gallery of Art · Painting

Bowl of Fruit

William Stearns

Date
c. 1830/1840
Medium
watercolor on velveteen (theorem painting)
Dimensions
overall: 47.3 x 52.7 cm (18 5/8 x 20 3/4 in.) framed: 53.9 x 59.3 x 3.1 cm (21 1/4 x 23 3/8 x 1 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Accession number
1953.5.34
Credit line
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Time span
1826 to 1850
Department
CAB
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • painted surface
  • American
  • still life
  • still
  • Fruit
  • American Naive Paintings
  • Naive
Provenance

Recorded as from New England. (Isabel Carlton Wilde, Cambridge, Massachusetts). (Edith Gregor Halpert, American Folk Art Gallery, New York), by whom sold in 1946 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.

Inscription

lower left: PAINTED BY; lower right: WILLIAM STEARNS; both probably applied with a stamp

NGA object ID 42437. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.