Monday, November 4, 2019

Plants & Flowers Rendered by Artists in Two Dimensions

Anonymous Artist working in England
Lady's Slipper Orchid
1906
watercolor
Wellcome Collection, London

Jan van den Hecke
Anemones in a Glass Vase
ca. 1650-56
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Jan Anton van der Baren
Roses in a Glass Vase
ca. 1659
oil on vellum
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Wolfgang Tillmans
Affinity
2009
inkjet print
Art Institute of Chicago

Vase Poppies

Lavenderish dusk
strapped for stays,
pomegranates under the rubberband
chucked for a glass Oz,

letdown
splayed by the pillar-shelves
to page upon the Ottoman:

his talk has wrought suit
amid citrus gapes
and pall dunked in the bowl
and grated sage
or cleaved clear paleo-pines.

Postgeist, upcast
California upon weed,
what banker yields
so fragrant a cant
as this vagrant cant?

– Jennifer Scappettone (2010)

Raoul Dufy
Les Altheas
(fabric design for Bianchini Férier, Lyon)
ca. 1914-20
screen-printed silk
Art Institute of Chicago

Eliot Porter
Frostbitten Apples, Tesuque, New Mexico
1966
dye imbibition print
Art Institute of Chicago

Eliot Porter
Moss, Waterfall, Cinders near Mt Hekla, Iceland
1972
dye imbibition print
Art Institute of Chicago

Daniel Seghers
Madonna and Child framed by Flowers
(figures in grisaille by Erasmus Quellinus the Younger)
ca. 1645
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Jan Philips van Thielen
Madonna and Child framed by Flowers
(figures in grisaille by Erasmus Quellinus the Younger)
1648
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

John Singer Sargent
Thistles
ca. 1883-89
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Henri Matisse
Still Life with Geranium
1906
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Charles Sheeler
Geraniums, Pots, Spaces
1923
drawing
(charcoal, Conté crayon, colored pencils)
Art Institute of Chicago

Henri Fantin-Latour
Still Life with Flowers
1881
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Henri Fantin-Latour
Roses in a Bowl
1881
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago