Plate with Still Life
Henry Varnum PoorWW-1922-114214
1922·Earthenware (red bodied), slip, colored underglaze decoration, and tin glaze·4 × 21.6 × 21.5 cm (1 5/8 × 8 9/16 × 8 1/2 in.)
<p>Henry Varnum Poor originally trained as a painter in California but turned to pottery for economic reasons. In his abstracted earthenware decoration, Poor made use of his skills as a draftsman, emphasizing the simplified forms of Modernism to which he was drawn. This plate reveals the artist’s debt to the French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne in its fluid arrangement of forms along the table edge and the flatness of the composition.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1922
- Dimensions
- 4 × 21.6 × 21.5 cm (1 5/8 × 8 9/16 × 8 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Henry Varnum Poor
Artist
Henry Varnum Poor
Henry Varnum Poor (American, 1888–1970)
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- Henry Varnum Poor
- Year
- 1922
- Dimensions
- 4 × 21.6 × 21.5 cm (1 5/8 × 8 9/16 × 8 1/2 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1922-114214
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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