Daisies
Daisies
Artist
De Scott Evans
(1847 - 1898)
Dateca. 1885
MediumOil on linen
Dimensions12 x 10 1/8 in. (30.5 x 25.7 cm)
Framed: 19 3/4 × 17 7/8 × 1 5/8 in.
Framed: 19 3/4 × 17 7/8 × 1 5/8 in.
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2006.72
Signedl.l., on depicted sheet of paper: S.S. David
Accession number
2006.72
On View
On viewLabel TextDe Scott Evans’s painting is a prime example of his trompe l’oeil (“fool the eye”) paintings. The arrangement is deliberately simple: the drinking glass that serves as a modest container for the flowers hangs askew from a nail on the wall. The artist’s signature, in the pseudonym S. S. David, appears on a scrap of paper nailed to the wooden panel beneath the precarious bouquet, at risk of being washed away.
