Joseph Decker (1853-1924)

Hard Candy

Details

Joseph Decker (1853-1924)
Hard Candy
signed 'J. Decker' (lower left)
oil on canvas
9 x 14 in. (22.9 x 35.6 cm.)

Provenance

The artist.
By descent in the artist's family.

Literature

Coe Kerr Gallery, Joseph Decker Still Lifes, Landscapes and Images of Youth, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1988, no. XVI, illustrated.

Exhibited

New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, Joseph Decker Still Lifes, Landscapes and Images of Youth, May 17-June 11, 1988, no. XVI.

Lot Essay

"Decker also returned to the subject of hard candy...the later hard-candy pictures glisten like Christmas ornaments as the light plays over their soft, multicolored, varied forms." (W.H. Gerdts, Coe Kerr Gallery, Joseph Decker, Still Lifes, Landscapes and Images of Youth, New York, 1988, n.p.)

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