George A. Keniston
Table of Fruit
1869-1904
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George A. Keniston
Table of Fruit
1869-1904
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Framed: 30 1/8 x 42 x 4 in. (76.5 x 106.7 x 10.2 cm) Unframed: 26 1/8 x 38 in. (66.4 x 96.5 cm) Sight: 25 5/8 x 37 5/8 in. (65.1 x 95.6 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, New York
Object Number
1968.37.2
Keniston spent his entire life in the small town of North Andover, Massachusetts where he was born. Employed in a local textile factory, he also pursued his artistic interests although he received no formal training. The prototype for this painting is a print from 1859 by Currier and Ives. Unlike traditional still lifes of the period which comfortably occupy their allotted spaces, Keniston's abundance of fruit sits precariously on a white marble slab, each piece dependent on its surroundings to keep it firmly in place.
Found in New York; David Hollander, New York; Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, New York, 1954 (54.102)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part Il," Mar. 16-Apr. 28, 1957, ill. p. 101
BMA, "American Naive Paintings, Pastels and Calligraphy of the 18th and 19th Cen-turies," Feb. 28-Apr. 15, 1973
BMA, "American Folk Art From The Baltimore Museum of Art and Local Collections," Apr. 4-June 18, 1978, p.7, no. 33
Sona Johnston, BMA organized, "The Art of Still Life from The Baltimore Museum of Art," circulated to The Academy Art Museum, Easton, August 3 - October 6, 2007; and Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, August 25, 2010 - October 10, 2010.
BMA, "American Naive Paintings, Pastels and Calligraphy of the 18th and 19th Cen-turies," Feb. 28-Apr. 15, 1973
BMA, "American Folk Art From The Baltimore Museum of Art and Local Collections," Apr. 4-June 18, 1978, p.7, no. 33
Sona Johnston, BMA organized, "The Art of Still Life from The Baltimore Museum of Art," circulated to The Academy Art Museum, Easton, August 3 - October 6, 2007; and Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, August 25, 2010 - October 10, 2010.
Baltimore Museum of Art. American Folk Art: From the Baltimore Museum of Art and Local Collections: An Exhibition, April 4 – June 18, 1978. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, [1978], cat. no. 33, page 6.
Sona K. Johnston, "American Painting 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1983, p. 98.
Inscribed: in red script, l.r., Geo. A. Keniston, /No. Andover,/Mass,
