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Severin Roesen
Still Life with Fruit and a Bird's Nest
c. 1871

About the Item

Severin Roesen (1816-c. 1872) Still Life with Fruit and a Bird’s Nest, c. 1871 Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches Framed dimensions: 41 x 50 1/4 inches Provenance: private collection, Martha’s Vineyard Related work: Still Life with a Basket of Fruit, 1871, oil on canvas, 30 ¼ x 40 ¼ inches (The Saint Louis Art Museum). Perhaps the most famous American still-life painter, Severin Roesen was born in Boppard-am-Rhein, Germany, between Frankfurt and Cologne. His training remains obscure, but he was active as a porcelain dealer in Cologne and exhibited there in 1847. Late in 1847, Roesen fled his debts and settled in New York City, where the demand created by an exhibition of German art earlier in the year ensured his early successes at the American Art-Union in the late 1840s and early 1850s. In 1857 Roesen began to paint in a number of Pennsylvania towns, such as Harrisburg and Huntingdon. He finally settled in the lumbering town of Williamsport in 1860 or 1861, producing a large number of still lifes for residents who became well off during the mid-century logging boom. Still Life with Fruit and a Bird’s Nest depicts a tremendous quantity of fresh fruit displayed in and around a large wicker basket. Peaches and grapes overflow from the basket onto the marble tabletop below, where they join sliced and whole watermelon, plums, cherries, a strawberry and an apple, and Roesen’s signature bird’s nest. Broad grape leaves fan out across the composition, and tendrils curl around the grape vines and spiral into the air. Robustness and warmth characterize this monumental symbolic representation of the young nation’s abundance. This painting is very similar in size and composition to an 1871 Roesen still life in the collection of The Saint Louis Art Museum. Severin Roesen exhibited his paintings at the American Art-Union from 1848 to 1852 and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1863. His works are mainly in private collections but also hang in museums such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum, New York; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the White House, Washington, D.C.; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; San Antonio Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Creator:
Severin Roesen (1815-1872, American)
Creation Year:
c. 1871
Dimensions:
Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Oil
Period:
1870-1879
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Bedford, NY
Reference Number:
Seller: GC-27131stDibs: LU53933872702

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