William Harnett’s Curious Objects Public Law metrical forms

metrical forms

A hilarious twist on a Christmas classic

from his early social realist and cubist-inspired efforts of the 1930s to his mature figurative paintings of the 1950s and his astounding final works on paper

Can they use their detective skills to stop him

William Harnett’s Curious Objects Public Law metrical formsAdmired for his trompe loeil style, American painter William Harnett (18481892) was as intellectually ambitious as he was technically skilled. The first scholarly monograph on the artist, William Harnetts Curious Objects details Harnetts career long effort to position still life as a serious art. Nika Elder elevates the significance of Harnetts academic training and questions his apparent turn away from it. Reading his still lifes in relation to