From my visit last weekend at the Clark Art Museum this painting has became etched in my memory. There is something simple yet extraordinary about this composition. I believe it has a lot to do with the colors or at least the concentration of color against a subdued background.
This oil painting titled, Still Life(Still Life with Fruit), was created by the late Ida Ten Eyck O'Keefe(1889-1961) in 1926. She was a younger sister to Georgia O'Keefe. Georgia, being the older sister, claimed she was the artist in the family and wanted to keep it that way. What is it about sibling rivalry and what does it tell us?
I found the exhibition on Ida Ten Eyck O'Keefe paintings fascinating. She was no amateur painter and had a clear aesthetic. For me her still life paintings stood out as they had vibrant color, not to minimize her landscape paintings.
The current exhibition at The Clark is titled: Ida O'Keefe: Escaping Georgia's Shadow: July 4 - October 6, 2019.
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