Objects on a Table
Artist: Patrick Henry Bruce (American, 1881–1936)
Original Dimensions: 35" x 45 3/4"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (ca. 1920–21) "Painted in France, where Bruce lived from 1904 to 1936, this still life depicts cut fruit, a glass with a straw, block-like shapes, and an architectural column with clean lines, geometric clarity, and cool tonalities. The painting exudes a rational stillness, especially when compared to Cubist still lifes by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. In fact, Objects on a Table marks a deliberate and profound departure from Cubism, which gained negative associations during World War I because its fragmentation of form appeared to visualize the conflict’s deadly destruction." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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