Floral Still Life by Kate Furbish

Object/Artifact

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Pejepscot History Center

Floral Still Life by Kate Furbish: A framed oil on silk floral still life painting by Kate Furbish. The flowers are primarily of white roses with slightly pink edges on black silk all conjoined by a leafy green vine. The flowers depicted appear to be Cherokee White Roses, a widespread, but invasive flower in Maine. Undated.
Floral Still Life by Kate Furbish

A framed oil on silk floral still life painting by Kate Furbish. The flowers are primarily of white roses with slightly pink edges on black silk all conjoined by a leafy green vine. The flowers depicted appear to be Cherokee White Roses, a widespread, but invasive flower in Maine. Undated.

Name/Title

Floral Still Life by Kate Furbish

Entry/Object ID

1992.75.17

Description

A framed oil on silk floral still life painting by Kate Furbish. The flowers are primarily of white roses with slightly pink edges on black silk all conjoined by a leafy green vine. The flowers depicted appear to be Cherokee White Roses, a widespread, but invasive flower in Maine. Undated.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Painting

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Flowers, Still lifes

Search Terms

Flowers, Still life, Silk

Exhibitions

14

Exhibition

Labor of Love: Creating Art and Community

Notes

Silk painting is traditionally an Asian practice but had a resurgence of interest in France throughout the 19th century. Kate Furbish, with her fine art education, would have been very in tune with these trends and likely learned the oil-on-silk technique used in this painting during her time in Paris. The flowers depicted appear to be Cherokee White Roses, a widespread but invasive flower in Maine. The white roses are all conjoined by a leafy green vine, painted on black silk.