Still Life with Pears
Artist
De Scott Evans
(American, 1847 - 1898)
Dateca. 1888
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 12 3/16 × 10 1/8 inches (30.96 × 25.72 cm)
Framed: 20 3/4 × 18 3/4 × 1 1/8 inches (52.71 × 47.63 × 2.86 cm)
Framed: 20 3/4 × 18 3/4 × 1 1/8 inches (52.71 × 47.63 × 2.86 cm)
Credit LineGift of Paul Mellon in memory of Mary Conover Mellon
Object numberF94-37/1
SignedSigned lower left: De Scott Evans / New York
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionThe painting depicts two pears hung, side by side, from two strings tied to the fruit stems. They hand against the painted illusion of a wood panel that continues around all the edges. At lower left a painted card is tacked (painted) to the background and inscribed "De Scott Evans / New York".Published ReferencesAlfred Frankenstein, After the Hunt: William Harnett and Other
American Still Life Painters, 1870–1900 (Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 1953), 158; American Still Life
Paintings from the Paul Magriel Collection, exh. cat. (Washington,
D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1957), unpaginated (as Two Pears);
Nature’s Bounty and Man’s Delight, exh. cat. (Newark, N.J.: Newark Museum, 1958), 11; 150 Years of American Still-Life Painting:
An Exhibition for the Benefit of the Kips Bay Boys’ Club, exh. cat.
(New York: Coe-Kerr Gallery, 1970), 24, 27; William H. Gerdts
and Russell Burke, American Still-Life Painting (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971), 164–65, 167; Nancy Troy, “From the Peanut
Gallery: The Rediscovery of De Scott Evans,” Yale University Art
Gallery Bulletin 36 (Spring 1977), 40; Roxana Barry, Plane Truths:
American Trompe l’Oeil Painting, exh. cat. (Katonah, N.Y.: Katonah Gallery, 1980), unpaginated; William H. Gerdts, Painters of
the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still Life, 1801–1939,
exh. cat. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, in association
with Philbrook Art Center, 1981), 203; A New Variety, Try One: De
Scott Evans or S.S. David, exh. cat. (Columbus, Ohio: Columbus
Museum of Art, 1985), 5, 8.
American Still Life Painters, 1870–1900 (Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 1953), 158; American Still Life
Paintings from the Paul Magriel Collection, exh. cat. (Washington,
D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1957), unpaginated (as Two Pears);
Nature’s Bounty and Man’s Delight, exh. cat. (Newark, N.J.: Newark Museum, 1958), 11; 150 Years of American Still-Life Painting:
An Exhibition for the Benefit of the Kips Bay Boys’ Club, exh. cat.
(New York: Coe-Kerr Gallery, 1970), 24, 27; William H. Gerdts
and Russell Burke, American Still-Life Painting (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971), 164–65, 167; Nancy Troy, “From the Peanut
Gallery: The Rediscovery of De Scott Evans,” Yale University Art
Gallery Bulletin 36 (Spring 1977), 40; Roxana Barry, Plane Truths:
American Trompe l’Oeil Painting, exh. cat. (Katonah, N.Y.: Katonah Gallery, 1980), unpaginated; William H. Gerdts, Painters of
the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still Life, 1801–1939,
exh. cat. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, in association
with Philbrook Art Center, 1981), 203; A New Variety, Try One: De
Scott Evans or S.S. David, exh. cat. (Columbus, Ohio: Columbus
Museum of Art, 1985), 5, 8.
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Walker Evans
August 1936; printed later
2005.27.1351
