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Artist
Title

Woman Arranging Flowers

Date
circa 1915
Century
20th century
Medium & Support
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Support: 39 1/4 x 31 5/8 in. , frame: 47 1/4 x 39 3/4 in.
Style
American Impressionism
Object Type
Paintings
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Charles M. Butler
Accession Number
1997.02.01.21
Copyright
Public Domain
ON VIEW
Description

Woman with a shawl standing at a table arranging flowers.

Label History

Barlow’s Woman Arranging Flowers is characterized by enveloping, soft textures. The painting was created in the artist’s studio in Trépied, France, where he lived as a member of an expatriate artist community, dividing his time between there and Detroit from 1900 until his death. The genteel atmosphere created in this painting is typical of Barlow’s work and is applied to scenes staged in his studio depicting local village women, with their colorful paisley shawls, as models. Domestic tableaus featuring women performing mundane tasks in a decorated room is a common subject among American Impressionist artists. The interior in this painting is simple rather than ornately decorated, echoing similar paintings by two artists Barlow studied—17th-century Dutch artist Vermeer, whose paintings he examined in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, and James McNeill Whistler, with whom Barlow studied in Paris.

Exhibition Title: Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction to the Collection
Label Date: 2021
Type: Catalogue Entry
Written by: Cindy Buckner

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