Still Life with Fruit
1856
graphite
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
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James McDougal Hart
James McDougal Hart (1858–1858) was an artist.
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graphite
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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Still Life with Fruit is a 1856 graphite by James McDougal Hart, a Impressionism work, depicting Fruit, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a bowl of peaches, plums, and grapes sitting on a tablecloth with deep folds. Hart drew this in 1856—right when American artists were first trying to paint light the way it actually looks, not the way rules said it should. The shadows under the fruit aren’t black; they’re soft gray, almost shimmering. If you like how the light feels here, look up the technique called *chiaroscuro*.
James McDougal Hart (1858–1858) was an artist.
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