Friday, August 7, 2026

Bouquet

Clementine Hunter
Zinnias
ca. 1970
oil on board
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin


Lumière Frères (Lyon)
Flowers in a Stein
ca. 1896-1903
trichromie
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anonymous English Photographer
Dahlias
ca. 1875
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

Jeff Koons
Large Vase of Flowers
1991
painted wood
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Ludwig Hohlwein
Damenconfectionhaus Mayer Sundheimer
1909
lithograph (poster)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder
Little Bouquet in a Roemer
ca. 1619
oil on copper
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

William George Gillies
The Tulip Vase
ca. 1942-44
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Félix Vallotton
Marigolds and Tangerines
1924
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Henri Matisse
Fleurs
1907
oil on cardboard
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Maestro della Fiasca di Forlì (Italian painter)
Flowers in a straw-covered Bottle
ca. 1625-30
oil on canvas
Museo Civico San Domenico, Forlì

Oscar Ghiglia
Vase of Roses
ca. 1920-30
oil on canvas
Museo Novecento, Florence

Jacob van Hulsdonck
Roses in a Glass Vase
ca. 1640-45
oil on copper
Mauritshuis, The Hague

Pedro Cervantez
Calla Lilies
1937
oil on panel (WPA project)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

John Hall Thorpe
Polyanthus
1921
color woodblock print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Samuel Peploe
Pink Roses - Chinese Vase
ca. 1915-20
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Willem van Aelst
Vase of Flowers with a Watch
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Sharon Core
1665
2011
inkjet print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Move eastward, happy earth, and leave
    Yon orange sunset waning slow:
From fringes of the faded eve,
    O, happy planet, eastward go;
Till over thy dark shoulder glow
    Thy silver sister-world  . . . 

– Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1842)