American and European Still Lifes
American (1881-1936)
Still Life (Fruits and Vegetables), 1911
19 1/2 x 24 inches, oil on canvas
Signed Bruce lower right
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Provenance
The artist.
Mrs. Helen Kibbey Bruce, wife of the above.
William Kennedy, circa 1960.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Reed, Montclair, New Jersey, circa 1970.
Private collection, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Literature
H. Kramer, Art; Sensual, Serene Sculpture, New York Times, January 25, 1975, p. 23
J. Tannenbaum, Four Americans, Arts Magazine, vol. 49, no. 7, March 1975, p. 10.
W.C. Agee, Patrick Henry Bruce: A Major American Artist of Early Modernism, Arts in Virginia, vol. 17, Spring 1977, pp. 15, 17, illustrated.
W.C. Agee, B. Rose, Patrick Henry Bruce: American Modernist, A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1979, p. 171, no. B43, illustrated.
Exhibited
Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, American Still Life in New Jersey Collections, October 25-December 13, 1970, no. 9.
New York, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, Four Americans, January 7-31, 1975, no. 1.