After Zurbaran
Artist
Jo Whaley
(American, born 1953)
Date1992
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 18 1/2 × 23 1/8 in. (47 × 58.7 cm)
Support: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
Mat: 24 13/16 × 30 7/8 in. (63 × 78.4 cm)
Support: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
Mat: 24 13/16 × 30 7/8 in. (63 × 78.4 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Bobbie Foshay, 2017
Object number2017.24.32
DescriptionA still life arranged on a wooden table with a painted backdrop behind it. At right is a pitcher with a long nozzle; at center is a woven basket filled with oranges and crowned by a spray of leaves and blossoms; at left is a plate holding three blood oranges, with one sliced in half exposing the dark flesh.eMuseum Notes
Before
she became a photographer, Jo Whaley was a painter and worked as a set designer
for the San Fransicso Opera Company. In her early work as a photographer,
Whaley used watercolors to add color to her black-and-white prints but
eventually she turned to color film. Here, she constructs an homage to the
Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbaran, whose “Still Life with Lemons, Oranges,
and a Rose,” from 1633, is echoed in this composition.
On View
Not on viewTerms
- still lifes
- fruit
- baskets
- pitchers
- staged photographs
- construction
- art history
