1938, Lois Mailou Jones, Cauliflower and Pumpkin -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the exhibition label: One of some forty paintings made by the artist in just nine months as a fellowship student at the Académie Julian, Paris, in 1937-38, Cauliflower and Pumpkin reflects Mailou Jones's skills as a painter and her recent study of Cézanne. Employing a traditional still-life arrangement, she achieved a poetic realism here that transcends the mundaneness of her props, using thick, painterly strokes and precise planes of color to suggest the smooth surfaces of both the pumpkin and the tabletop.
1938, Lois Mailou Jones, Cauliflower and Pumpkin -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the exhibition label: One of some forty paintings made by the artist in just nine months as a fellowship student at the Académie Julian, Paris, in 1937-38, Cauliflower and Pumpkin reflects Mailou Jones's skills as a painter and her recent study of Cézanne. Employing a traditional still-life arrangement, she achieved a poetic realism here that transcends the mundaneness of her props, using thick, painterly strokes and precise planes of color to suggest the smooth surfaces of both the pumpkin and the tabletop.