Hobson Pittman (American, 1899-1972), Still Life with Marigolds and Pears

Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, presented in a giltwood frame.

Stretcher size 18 x 24 1/4 in.; Frame dimensions 23 1/4 x 29 in.

Private Collection, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Private Collection, Sellersville, Pennsylvania
Newmann Galleries, Philadelphia
Sotheby's, New York, circa 1980s
From the Collection of the late A. Everette James, Jr., M.D., J.D., Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Private Collection, Asheville, North Carolina


Exhibited:
Cheekwood, Nashville, Tennessee
An Unknown University Club

Born in rural Edgecombe County, NC, Pittman moved to Pennsylvania in 1918. After several one-man shows in Philadelphia, he was represented in the 1933 exhibition "Painting and Sculpture from 16 American Cities" held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY. A celebrated regionalist, Pittman exhibited extensively throughout his lifetime and beyond.

Pittman was particularly known for his depictions of quiet rooms, writing “rooms are wonder for me—I like rooms and doors and windows—Mystery shrouds them all—mystery not revealed or explained...” John Canaday, Art Editor of the New York Times, reveled in Pittman's interiors as being both "nostalgic and visionary," seemingly at once "still peopled by the remembered presences of romantic personages."


Good estate condition, slight canvas waviness.