Flowers on Table
Arthur Beecher Carles, American, 1882 - 1952
about 1925
Oil on canvas
Overall: 17 1/8 × 16 1/8 in. (43.5 × 41 cm)
Frame: 22 × 21 in. (55.9 × 53.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Daisy V. Shapiro in memory of her son, Richard David Shapiro, Class of 1943
P.967.74
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Label on reverse: GRAHAM GALLERY 1014 Madison Ave. N.Y. 21/ arthur B. Carles G198 / Flowers on Table (#53) c. 1925 o/c 17 x 16. Label: CARLES - G198. Label: Gallery of Modern Art / 421.65 Graham Gal./20s Revisited
Label
A life-long Philadelphian, Arthur Beecher Carles was an early and devoted American proponent of European avant-garde trends, as is evident in his dramatic brushwork and inventive use of color. Diagonal shafts of light and color stream down, giving structure to the energetic floral composition.
We often incorporate flowers into funerals and memorial services, and sometimes flowers or cherished objects remind us of someone we have lost. These ideas blended for the grieving mother who gave this work to the College in memory of her son, Richard Shapiro, Class of 1943. Shapiro was killed in action a year after his graduation from Dartmouth while fighting in World War II.
From the 2024 exhibition Beyond the Bouquet: Arranging Flowers in American Art, curated by Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art
Course History
SART 31, SART 72, Painting II/III, Tom Ferrara, Summer 2022
Studio Art 25.02, Painting I, Tom Ferrara, Winter 2024
English 39.01, American Fiction: 1950-1990, Kimberly Brown, Winter 2025
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2025
Spanish 3.01, Spanish III, Natalia Monetti, Spring 2025
Spanish 3.02, Spanish III, Natalia Monetti, Spring 2025
Anthropology 31.01, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 36.01, Gender in Cross Cultural Perspectives, Sabrina Billings, Fall 2025
Studio Session: Beyond the Bouquet, Winter 2025
Special Tour: Attitude of Coexistence and Beyond the Bouquet, Winter 2025
Exhibition History
American Paintings from the Dartmouth Collection, 1910-1960, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 17-April 12, 1998.
Beyond the Bouquet: Arranging Flowers in American Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 18, 2024 - late 2025.
Honoring Reunion Classes, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Gallleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-19, 1977.
The Estate of Arthur B. Carles, Graham Gallery, no. G198 [Carles no. 53], New York, New York, 1959.
The Richard David Shapiro 1943 Memorial Collection, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1968, no. 2.
The Twenties Revisited, The Gallery of Modern Art, New York, New York, no. 421, June 29-September 6, 1965.
Provenance
Graham Gallery, 1014 Madison Avenue, New York, New York; sold to Daisy Viertel Shapiro (1890-1984), New York, date unknown; given to present collection, 1967.
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