GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This painting is dramatically different in style from Perry Nichols' earlier works. Its highly finished surface betrays virtually no brushstrokes, while the mysterious, hyper-realistic assemblage of still-life objects evokes the late 19th-century trompe l'oeil ("fool-the-eye") still lifes.
Adapted from
Wiliam Keyse Rudolph, Label text, 2005
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Created in 1953
Reviewed Object File
"magic realism"
Type of shell: lightning whelk
Remarks on card: Discrepancy in acquisition date and date on painting derives from fact that paintings was returned to artist briefly after winning prize.
Exhibition: Lone Star Regionalism: The Dallas Nine and their Circle 1928-1945, February 3, 1985-July 10, 1988
Potential connections to title for fun facts:
Red Queen from Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll---Alice in Wonderland Disney film came out in 1951.
"This painting is dramatically different in style from Perry Nichols' earlier "Fight in the Corral," on view nearby. Its highly finished surface betrays virtually no brushstrokes, while the mysterious, hyper-realistic assemblage of still-life objects evokes the late 19th-century trompe l'oeil ("fool-the-eye") still lifes of William Michael Harnett and John Peto, whose works are on view in the Museum's American collections.
Besides executing numerous murals around the city, Dallas native Nichols assisted Pierre Bourdelle on the plaster reliefs for the exposition buildings built for the 1936 Texas Centennial, which still stand today in Fair Park. He also headed the art department at The Hockaday School."
Wiliam Keyse Rudolph
The Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of American Art
July 2005
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Place of origin: Dallas (Texas/United States): TGN: 7013503
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Oil on Masonite
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PROVENANCE
Before 1953: Perry Nichols [1]
From 1953: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, State Fair of Texas Purchase, The Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture [2]
[1] The main source for this provenance was existing information in TMS (in Dallas Museum of Art Digital Collections Records Object Files). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[2] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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General Description
This painting is dramatically different in style from Perry Nichols' earlier works. Its highly finished surface betrays virtually no brushstrokes, while the mysterious, hyper-realistic assemblage of still-life objects evokes the late 19th-century trompe l'oeil ("fool-the-eye") still lifes.
Adapted from
Wiliam Keyse Rudolph, Label text, 2005
Fun Facts
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Notes
Created in 1953
Reviewed Object File
"magic realism"
Type of shell: lightning whelk
Remarks on card: Discrepancy in acquisition date and date on painting derives from fact that paintings was returned to artist briefly after winning prize.
Exhibition: Lone Star Regionalism: The Dallas Nine and their Circle 1928-1945, February 3, 1985-July 10, 1988
Potential connections to title for fun facts:
Red Queen from Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll---Alice in Wonderland Disney film came out in 1951.
"This painting is dramatically different in style from Perry Nichols' earlier "Fight in the Corral," on view nearby. Its highly finished surface betrays virtually no brushstrokes, while the mysterious, hyper-realistic assemblage of still-life objects evokes the late 19th-century trompe l'oeil ("fool-the-eye") still lifes of William Michael Harnett and John Peto, whose works are on view in the Museum's American collections.
Besides executing numerous murals around the city, Dallas native Nichols assisted Pierre Bourdelle on the plaster reliefs for the exposition buildings built for the 1936 Texas Centennial, which still stand today in Fair Park. He also headed the art department at The Hockaday School."
Wiliam Keyse Rudolph
The Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of American Art
July 2005
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Place of origin: Dallas (Texas/United States): TGN: 7013503
Process/materials
Oil on Masonite
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Before 1953: Perry Nichols [1]
From 1953: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, State Fair of Texas Purchase, The Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture [2]
[1] The main source for this provenance was existing information in TMS (in Dallas Museum of Art Digital Collections Records Object Files). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[2] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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