An abstract painting of a bowl of grapes surrounded by purple, blue, green, and yellow shapes.

Italian Fruit Dish

Hugh Henry Breckenridge (1870-1937)

Date

1931
Object Type

Paintings
Medium

Oil on canvas
Dimensions

24 1/8 x 25 1/8 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
signed l.r.: Hugh H. Breckenridge
Stretcher, verso:
u.l. handwritten in ink on white label: "Italian Fruit Dish" [underlined] / by / Hugh H. Breckenridge / Return to: North West Storage Co. 17th + Poplar Sts. / Philadelphia
u.c. in graphite sideways: #57 2
u.r. typed on white label: Artist Hugh Breckenridge / Medium oil / Title Italian Fruit Dish / Price / No. 2135
Backing board, verso:
u.l. printed on white label: 6305 / x 101 [in ink]
u.l. printed on label: JUDY & ALAN / GOFFMAN / Fine American Paintings / ARTIST: Hugh H. Breckenridge (1870-1937) / TITLE: Italian Fruit Dish / MEDIUM: Oil on canvas / SIZE: 24" x 25" / DATE: 1931 / ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Exhibited: PAFA / 3/33, PAFA One Man Show 4/34, Man- / chester, NH 6/34 / P.O. BOX 350A . BLUEBELL, PA 19422 . (215) 643-6310
u.c. printed on white label: Nassau County Museum of Art / American Vanguards / January 21, 1996 - April 28, 1996 / Hugh H. Breckenridge / ITALIAN FRUIT DISH, 1931 / oil on canvas 24" x 25
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

1999.27
Copyright

Public domain

American Still Life

February 14–August 16, 2015

Organized in celebration of a recent acquisition, American Still Life highlights the ability of 19th and 20th-century American artists to celebrate the ordinary through their paintings, whether trompe l’oeil masters or modernist photographers.

Location: On view

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