Catherine E. Murphy

American, b. 1946

Still Life with Reproductions
1974

Lithograph on on Arches Cover paper
12.5 x 18.5 in.
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowments for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services
2009.62

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This object has the following keywords:

• books
• dishes - Any of various broad, relatively shallow, open vessels with a flat bottom, concave sides, and nearly level rim, sometimes having a cover; made of pottery, glass, metal, wood or another material and used especially for holding or serving food. In modern usage it is typically reserved for vessels at a dining table used for serving or holding food other than the round, flat or very shallow object used by the person dining, which is called a "plate"; however, formerly the plate was also called a "dish."
• drinking glasses - Vessels intended for an individual to use for drinking wine, water, or other beverage.
• food
• 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."
• table

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• Vogel Collection , 8/1/2009 - 10/22/2014
• Fall 20 - Vogel Women , 9/22/2020 - 12/18/2021
• SC Summer 25 - Still Life , 5/28/2025 - 9/1/2025

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