Josephine Ainsworth

Still Life with Tulips, 1976

28.5 × 22.5 ″ Framed: 29.25 × 23.25 × 0.813 ″ Gouache with pencil and pastel

Still life of fruit and flowers. Placed in the center of the composition is the bowl with paper holding the white flowers that are depicted on the viewer's top right. There is a basket on the viewers left with three apples. Four apples lay outside the basket one up against on the left side while the other three are in the front foreground. There is a white cloth with blue/grey details underneath the bowl, basket and fruit. All of the objects are on a wooden table that takes up two thirds of the composition. The top left of the composition is the top portion of a wooden chair with a blue and white striped cloth draped over the viewers right of the chair. On the right of the composition is a dark red jar on a counter. The background is a faint square wall. This is mirrored in a placemat on the table one with no color behind the flower bowl and another to the side of the objects with colors. Framjed in a metal silver frame with glass.
Writings on the back:
Clear label: Josephine Wupper Ainsworth/ b. Milwaukee 1910/ d. Cedarburg 1991/ Still life with tulips/ gouache pencil and pastel 1976/ Collection Cedarburg Art Museum/ Gift of Liz & Brook Brown
Pen Writing: Josephine Ainstworth/ W62 N780 N. Sheboygan Rd./ Cedarburg Wi, 53012/ DR 7-09997/ Still life with white tulips
White sticker with red boarder: Purchased from Violette Jahnke/ Estate 2007/ Tulips by Josie Ainsworth/ Donated by Brook and Liz Brown

 

Credit Line:

Collection of Cedarburg Art Museum, Gift of Brook and Elizabeth Brown

Inventory ID:

2016.30