Name/Title
Winograd, Helen (1910-2010) "Flowers and Fruit"Entry/Object ID
2025.900.FA18370Tags
Oil PaintingDescription
Winograd uses a post-impressionist framework to depict household objects and the geometry of their surrounding space. Shapes are disrupted by vertical lines (like the pears and pitchers) or become radically abstracted (like green leaves as diagonals). The painting’s vivid colors and casual domesticity keep it from appearing clinical; rather, like the title of a magazine partially visible at lower left, it manifests the “Art” of everyday vision.Collection
Mt. Morris TB Hospital FAP CollectionCondition
Overall Condition
PoorDate Examined
Aug 2, 2025Notes
4+ cracks by handle of pitcher in grnery of bouquet, 11+ chips along edges in flowers, 4 scratches left side by pear /bottom left corner and right cornerProvenance
Provenance Detail
Created under the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project (1930s–1940s), this collection of easel paintings was originally installed at the Mount Morris Tuberculosis Sanitorium in Livingston County, New York. Following the sanitorium’s closure in 1970, the artworks were abandoned and remained in storage until their rediscovery decades later. Now preserved and exhibited by the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts (GVCA), the collection is housed at the New Deal Museum in Mount Morris. Current efforts include digitization, high-resolution photography, and the creation of an online archive to ensure long-term public access and research availability.General Notes
Note Type
Cataloging NoteNote
See the entry titled 'New Deal Collection Documents' for supporting documents, and general historic and research information.
