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Still Life with Cantaloupe
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About this work
William Mason Brown launched his career as a portrait and landscape painter, but turned to still life subjects during the 1860s, which brought him success and renown. The various objects in this example are rendered in meticulous detail, capturing a range of textures from the soft fuzz of peach skin through the coarse webbing of cantaloupe rind.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineStill Life with Cantaloupe, c. 1880. William Mason Brown (American, 1828–1898). Oil on canvas; unframed: 35.5 x 46 cm (14 x 18 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1969.20
