A teacher asked this question of one of our educators, and I’m passing it
on to the list. She's trying to identify the artist/title of the work
described below. She thought the image had come to her as a transparency
accompanying a textbook. Any clues would be appreciated.
"...it was a still-life of a table in front of a window. In the distance,
out the window one could see lush tree-covered. The window was a large,
picture-window, possibly with a wooden frame. On the table was a
collection of objects—a camera, a typewriter, a revolver (maybe), a vase
of roses, a John Deere lawnmower (maybe), a lantern, a deer’s head (I
think) and various other objects. I know that the artist had done other
paintings of similar scenes—with other objects and perhaps other seasons
in the window (i.e. the tree-covered mountain was no longer green). And it
was contemporary, or at least since John Deere has been making lawnmowers.
"This is what I think, but could be mistaking it with another artist: it
was someone of Japanese-American heritage and they lived in the northeast,
but had a home in the northwest where the painting was set."
Lu Harper
Librarian
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
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