Object number2023.20

Still Life with Pansies and Cigarettes

Datec. 1930

Artist Edna Reindel (American, 1894 - 1990)

CultureAmerican

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 12 x 8 1/8 in. (30.5 x 20.6 cm)
Framed: 17 3/4 x 14 in. (45.1 x 35.6 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, gift of Mrs. Frederick Ferris Thompson, by exchange

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Painting

SignedSigned lower right: Edna Reindel

InscribedOn the reverse, by unidentified hand, upper stretcher bar in grease pencil: STILL LIFE / WITH [no longer legible, PA]NSIES; right stretcher bar, in pencil, partially covered with backing paper: PAN[SI]ES / CI[G]AR / ETT[E]S; vertically: 7/6/33

MarkingsIllegible stamps on stretcher bars

BibliographyEDNA REINDEL: AMERICAN “PSYCHO-REALIST” PAINTER by Virginia Duncan A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Group in the History of Art Advised by Michael Leja, December 2020 Catherine Speck, Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars (London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2014). Catherine Speck, “Women, Art and Wartime Industries: A Feminist Inter/Modern Analysis,” Australian Feminist Studies, 34, 295-308. Robert Henkes, World War II in American Art (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001). Robert Hanks, American Women Painters of the 1930s and 1940s: The Lives and Work of Ten Artists, (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1991).ProvenanceThe artist;
[William MacBeth Gallery, New York];
Private collection, New York;
[Ira Spanierman Gallery, New York]; to
Private collection, Dallas, 1986 until 2023
Purchased from Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
DescriptionDepiction of a still life with a white cloth napkin spread out on a table with a small glass of three pansies in the upper right, a small bowl with a cigarette and red matchbook at center right, and a red book with a packet of Chesterfield cigarettes in the immediate foreground.

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