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A work made of oil on canvas.

PH-246, 1951/52

Clyfford Still

Large abstract painting, overlapping zigzagging layers of orange, cream, red, and black.

PH-774, 1958

Clyfford Still

A work made of oil on panel.

Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain, 1658

Adriaen van der Spelt

A plucked chicken, a few stray feathers remaining, hangs upside-down by one foot, illuminated. Behind it the metal hinges and wood panels of a door are visible.

For Sunday's Dinner, 1888

William Michael Harnett

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Irish Question, 1880s

De Scott Evans

A work made of oil on canvas.

Still Life in Interior, 1920–22

Preston Dickinson

A work made of oil on canvas.

Poor Room—There Is No Time, No End, No Today, No Yesterday, No Tomorrow, Only the Forever, and Forever, and Forever without End, 1942–43, 1948–55, 1957–63

Ivan Albright

A work made of oil on canvas.

Just Dessert, 1891

William Michael Harnett

Still-life painting, fish, open oysters, eel, lemon on tablecloth.

Fish (Still Life), 1864

Édouard Manet

An older man at left in red raises his hat toward a central table chaotically overflowing with dead game, fruits, and vegetables. The wings of dead birds and limbs of animals are splayed out at dramatic angles; a deer at center is suspended by his back legs. Live birds and a cat animate the scene.

Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market, 1614

Frans Snyders

A work made of oil on panel.

Still Life, c. 1625

Pieter Claesz

A work made of oil on canvas.

An Abundance of Fruit, c. 1860

Severin Roesen

A work made of oil on canvas.

Thistles, 1883–89

John Singer Sargent

A work made of oil on silk.

Pray for These Little Ones (Perforce They Live Together), 1973–74

Ivan Albright

Watercolor of a pile of red apples to the right of a short, green glass, all atop a crumpled white backdrop suggesting cloth.

Still Life: Apples and Green Glass, 1925

Charles Demuth

A work made of oil on canvas.

Wine, Cheese, and Fruit, 1857

John F. Francis

A work made of platinum-palladium print.

3 Steel Blocks, New York, April 1980, printed March 1981

Irving Penn

A work made of oil on canvas.

Apples, 1916

Henri Matisse

A work made of oil, and possibly sand, on canvas.

Untitled (Still Life with Lobster), c. 1930

Jan Matulka

Apples and grapes rest in a shallow wicker basket on a table covered with a light-colored cloth. Additional fruit is scattered on the table.

Apples and Grapes, 1880

Claude Monet

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