Cleveland Museum of Art
Still Life with Cantaloupe
William Mason Brown
- Date
- c. 1880
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- America
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
William Mason Brown launched his career as a portrait and landscape painter, but turned to still life subjects during the 1860s, which brought him success and renown. The various objects in this example are rendered in meticulous detail, capturing a range of textures from the soft fuzz of peach skin through the coarse webbing of cantaloupe rind. Each peach, raspberry, and chestnut in this composition is painted from a different angle.
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