Howard Warshaw

American
(1920–1977)

Sacks
1947

Oil on canvas
12.5 x 24.75 x 2 in.
Gift of George R. Wanlass
1992.19

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This object has the following keywords:

• Bags
• brown
• feed bags - A sack filled with feed that is tied onto the head of a horse or other livestock. Printed cotton feed bags were recycled as inexpensive women's wear and quilting during the US Depression in the 1930s.
• still lifes - Images in which the focus is a depiction of inanimate objects, as distinguished from art in which such objects are subsidiary elements in a composition.The term is generally applied to depictions of fruit, flowers, meat or dead game, vessels, eating utensils, and other objects, including skulls, candles, and hourglasses, typically arranged on a table. Such images were known since the time of ancient Greece and Rome; however, the subject was exploited by some 16th-century Italian painters, and was highly developed in 17th-century Dutch painting, where the qualities of form, color, texture, and composition were valued, and the images were intended to relay allegorical messages. The subject is generally seen in oil paintings, though it can also be found in mosaics, watercolors, prints, collages, and photographs. The term originally included paintings in which the focus was on living animals at rest, although such depictions would now be called "animal paintings."

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• SC Fall 22 - Still Life , 9/19/2022 - 5/19/2023