Still Life with Anemones

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Still Life with Anemones

c. 1932

Edith Longstreth Wood (American, 1885–1967)

A glass vase sits atop a November 1932 issue of Vogue. One of the editorials in the magazine rhetorically asked budgeting Depression-era readers which they would rather own: a radio or flowers. Philadelphia artist Edith Longstreth Wood chose anemones. The enigmatic background of this painting reveals Wood’s modernist inclinations, shared with her contemporary at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Arthur B. Carles.

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Object Details

Title:

Still Life with Anemones

Date:

c. 1932

Artist:

Edith Longstreth Wood (American, 1885–1967)

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

30 1/4 × 25 1/8 inches (76.8 × 63.8 cm) Framed: 34 1/4 × 29 5/8 × 3 inches (87 × 75.2 × 7.6 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

Gift of Miss Miriam H. Thrall, 1968

Accession Number:

1968-42-1

Geography:

Made in United States, North and Central America

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