Still Life

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Artist: Ben Benn
Date: 1941
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 24 1/4 x 30 in. (61.6 x 76.2 cm)
Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Aubergine Glaze · Purple family · #3D3B4D · 18%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #563F39 · 17%

Tarnished Aquamarine · Teal family · #668A8D · 16%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #AB9673 · 8%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #9C6F52 · 7%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #BAC59C · 6%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #564B3A · 5%

Madder Lake · Red family · #A7343E · 5%

Laurel Cloth · Green family · #586B4A · 4%

Blue Spruce Cloth · Teal family · #294949 · 4%

Blue Rag Paper · Blue family · #7A8AA8 · 4%

Roman Brick Earth · Brown family · #823E35 · 3%

Slate Night · Black family · #1C2A2E · 2%

Bitumen Shadow · Black family · #2C211B · <1%

Blue Rag Paper · Blue family · #95A4BA · <1%

Indigo Banner · Blue family · #27488C · <1%

Press Black · Black family · #16151D · <1%

Glasshouse Green · Green family · #0F7B57 · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Gift of New York City W. P. A., 1943

10 tags

Still Life Both · 99%

The museum identifies the work as a still life, and the image visibly shows an arranged group of inanimate objects on a tabletop, including fruit and vessels.
Food Both · 99%

Fruit is listed among the catalog subjects and is clearly visible throughout the central and lower portions of the composition.
Representations of Everyday Objects Both · 98%

Jugs are listed among the catalog subjects, and the image prominently shows a large green handled jug near the left-center along with other vessel-like forms.

Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 97%

Saturated reds, greens, blues, and yellows appear prominently in the fruit, jug, fabric, and background elements.
Dense Composition Visual · 95%

Overlapping fruit, vessels, fabric, and angular background passages occupy most of the canvas, producing a tightly packed arrangement.
Angular Visual · 90%

Dark contour lines and repeated slanting edges give many of the vessels, fruit, basket-like form, fabric, and background elements an angular appearance.

1940s-1950s Art Metadata · 100%

The work is dated 1941, placing it within the catalog’s 1940s–1950s art period category.

American Art Metadata · 91%

The artist is identified by the museum as American, born in Ukraine; this supports the broad American Art category without asserting a more specific regional affiliation for the pictured scene.

Ben Benn. Still Life. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.