Purple Plums

1895

Carducius Plantagenet Ream (American, 1838–1917)

Status: On View, Gallery 174
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Carducius Plantagenet Ream
Title: Purple Plums
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1895
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, lower right: "C. P. Ream"
Dimensions: 40.6 × 55.9 cm (16 × 22 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Catherine M. White
Reference Number: 1899.907
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Judith A. Barter and Lynn E. Springer, Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, 1820–1940, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Art Museum, 1977), cat. 76.
Michael B. Emery et al., “Fruit in Graphic Art,” (Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2013), (ill.).

Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Hyde Park: Past & Present, May 18–June 20, 1962, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Art in Illinois: In Honor of the Illinois Sesquicentennial, June 15–Sept. 8, 1968, no cat.
St. Louis Art Museum, Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, 1820–1940, Feb. 18–Apr. 10, 1977, cat. 76.

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