About this artwork
Henry Varnum Poor originally trained as a painter in California but turned to pottery for economic reasons. In his abstracted earthenware decoration, Poor made use of his skills as a draftsman, emphasizing the simplified forms of Modernism to which he was drawn. This plate reveals the artist’s debt to the French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne in its illogical arrangement of forms along the table edge and the flatness of the composition.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Arts of the Americas
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Artist
- Henry Varnum Poor
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Title
- Plate with Still Life
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Place
- New York (Object made in)
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Date
- c. 1922–1923
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Medium
- Glazed earthenware
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Inscriptions
- Initialed, in glaze, front: "HVP" Impression by seal under base: (see file) Blue pencil mark: (see file)
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Dimensions
- 21.3 × 138 cm (8 3/8 × 1 3/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Logan Purchase Prize
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Reference Number
- 1923.354