Reclining Female Nude

Lucille Douglass

1908

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Dancers (Jitterbug), Ann Weaver Norton, Basky Foundry, bronze
This painting represents a basket of fruit sitting on a marble tabletop. Within the basket are grapes with grape leaves and vines, apples, peaches, an orange, and a pear. Spilling from the basket onto the tabletop are grapes, peaches, plums, apples, oranges, and a piece of cut watermelon. Amid the tabletop fruit is a bird’s nest containing three eggs. There is also a silver plate on the tabletop, and on the silver plate are a filled champagne flute and a peeled lemon, as well as grapes, apples, peaches, a plum, and two currants. The artist has signed the painting “Roesen” in the lower right corner by extending a grape vine.
This black and white image shows a man from the waist up with his arms stretched ot his sides. They are cut off above the elbow by the edges of the image. His hair and long beard are whipping in the wind. At the figures lower left is the face of an African American man. Behind the figure's waist are two covered wagons, one to his left and the other to his right. In the darkened background of the image, a tornado touches down on the horizon.
Portfolio #14