Georgia O'Keeffe
(1887 - 1986)

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers, hills and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived. Although she was a figure associated with interpretations regarding feminism, she did not want to be seen as a "woman artist", she wanted to be seen as an artist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe

Jimson Weed / White Flower No. 1
1932
Oil on canvas
134.5 x 113.5 cm
Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas, U.S.
https://crystalbridges.org/artworks/2014-35

 Juan Gris
(1887 - 1927)

José Victoriano González-Pérez better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement's most distinctive. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Gris

The Breakfast
1914
Gouache, oil, and crayon on cut-and-pasted printed paper on canvas with oil and crayon
80.9 x 59.7 cm
MoMA
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/35572

Giorgio Morandi
(1890 - 1964)

Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker widely known for his subtly muted still-life paintings of ceramic vessels, flowers, and landscapes. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Morandi

Natura Morta ‘Still life)
1916
Oil on canvas
82.5 x 57.5 cm
MoMA
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79411?artist_id=4079&page=1&sov_referrer=artist

 <b>Pablo Picasso</b>
 (1881 – 1973)
 

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. His career spanned more than 76 years, from his late teens to his death in 1973. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

Still Life with Chair Caning
1979
Oil and waxed canvas on canvas, framed with rope
29 x 37
Musée Picasso Paris
https://cep.museepicassoparis.fr/explorer/nature-morte-la-chaise-cannee-mp36

Georges Braque
(1882 - 1963)

Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. Braque's work between 1908 and 1912 is closely associated with that of his colleague Pablo Picasso. Their respective Cubist works were indistinguishable for many years, yet the quiet nature of Braque was partially eclipsed by the fame and notoriety of Picasso.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Braque

Bottle and Fishes
C. 1910-1912
Oil on canvas
61.9 x 74.9 cm
Tate collection
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/braque-bottle-and-fishes-t00445

Henri Matisse
(1869 - 1854)

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse

Still Life 
1905
oil on cardboard on wood 
17 x 24 cm
NGA,Washington DC
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/52184-still-life

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(1841 - 1919)
 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a leading French Impressionist artist. In his depiction of feminine beauty, Renoir has been described as "the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir

Still Life with Peaches and Grapes
1881
Oil on canvas
54 x 65.1 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437428 

Édouard Manet
(1832 - 1883) 

Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Édouard_Manet

Peonies
1864–65
Oil on canvas
59.4 x 35.2 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436961

 Henri Fantin-Latour
(1836 - 1904)
 

Ignace Henri Jean Theodore Fantin-Latour  was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Fantin-Latour

Still Life with Flowers and Fruit
1866
Oil on canvas
73 x 60 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436293

Paul Gauguin
(1848 - 1903)
 

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an influential practitioner of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. While only moderately successful during his lifetime, Gauguin has since been recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gauguin

Still Life with Teapot and Fruit
1896
Oil on canvas
47.6 x 66 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437999

 Vincent van Gogh
(1853 - 1890)
 

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

Sunflowers
1889
Oil on canvas
95 x 73 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0031V1962

 Paul Cézanne
(1839 – 1906)
 

Paul Cézanne was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century and formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th-century Cubism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cézanne

Still Life with Bread and Eggs
1865
Oil on canvas
59.1 × 76.2 cm
Cincinnati Art Museum
https://collection.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/objects/115718/still-life-with-bread-and-eggs

Luis Meléndez
(1716 – 1780)

Luis Egidio Meléndez was a Spanish painter. Though he received little acclaim during his lifetime and died in poverty, Meléndez is recognized as one of the greatest Spanish still-life painters of the 18th century. His mastery of composition and light, and ability to convey the volume and texture of individual objects enabled him to transform the most mundane of kitchen fare into powerful images. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Egidio_Meléndez

Still Life with Watermelons and Apples
1771
Oil on canvas
63 x 84 cm
Prado, Madrid
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/still-life-with-watermelons-and-apples-in-a/d3fb5468-40c6-42fd-965b-85c418f295ef?searchid=4812fcf7-f37c-69eb-3587-55318b6b420f

Francisco de Goya
(1560 – 1627)
 

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (/ˈɡɔɪə/; Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko xoˈse ðe ˈɣoʝa i luˈθjentes]; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters. Goya is often referred to as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of Western art.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya 

 

Still Life with Golden Bream
1808-1812
Oil on canvas
44.8 x 62.5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/26077/still-life-with-golden-bream

 Anne Vallayer-Coster
(1744 – 1818)
 

Anne Vallayer-Coster was a French painter best known for still lifes. She achieved fame and recognition very early in her career, being admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1770, at the age of twenty-six.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Vallayer-Coster

Attributes of Music
1770
Oil on canvas
113 x 116 cm
Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059097

Jean Siméon Chardin
(1699 - 1779)

Jean Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characterize his work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Siméon_Chardin

La Raie (The Ray)
1728
Oil on canvas
114.5 x 177.5 cm
Louvre collection
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010065938 

Louise Moillon
(1610–1696) 
 

Louise Moillon was a French still life painter in the Baroque era. It is recorded that she became known as one of the best still life painters of her time, as her work was purchased by King Charles I of England, as well as French nobility. Moillon's works show the influence of Flemish painting in their trompe l'oeil effects but are characteristically French in their elegance. Moillon created about 40 paintings during her lifetime which are held in museums and private collections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Moillon

Still Life with a Basket of Fruit and a Bunch of Asparagus
1630
Oil on panel
53.3 × 71.3 cm
Art Institute of Chicago
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/62450/still-life-with-a-basket-of-fruit-and-a-bunch-of-asparagus

 Frans Snyders
(1579 – 1657)
 

Frans Snyders or Frans Snijders was a Flemish painter of animals, hunting scenes, market scenes, and still lifes. A versatile artist, his works depict all sorts of foods, utensils, and tableware and wide assortment of animals. He was one of the earliest specialist animaliers and he is credited with initiating a wide variety of new still-life and animal subjects in Antwerp. His hunting scenes and still lifes engage the viewer with their dramatic and dynamic effects. He was a regular collaborator with leading Antwerp painters such as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, and Abraham Janssens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Snyders

 

Still Life with a Maid
1633
Oil on canvas
153 x 214 cm
Museo del Prado
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/still-life-with-a-maid/025b2c33-b378-40da-a40c-a60389cce73c

Osias Beert the Elder
(c. 1580 - 1623)

Osias Beert or Osias Beert the Elder was a Flemish painter active in Antwerp who played an important role in the early development of flower and "breakfast"-type still lifes as independent genres in Northern European art. He has been recognized as one of the most influential artists of the earliest generation of still life painters in Flanders. He contributed in particular to the development of still lifes placed on table tops featuring festive culinary delights as well as of sumptuous floral bouquets, typically displayed in Wan Li vases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osias_Beert

Dishes with Oysters, Fruit, and Wine
c. 1620/1624
Oil on panel
52.9 x 73.4 cm
NGA - National Gallery of Art
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/91389-dishes-oysters-fruit-and-wine

Maria van Oosterwijck
(1630 – 1693)
 

Maria van Oosterwijck, also spelled Oosterwyck, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, specialising in richly detailed flower paintings and other still lifes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_van_Oosterwijck

 

Vanitas Still Life
1675
Oil on canvas
78.6 x 103.5 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Vanitas-stilleven--d033000c6105aa20de529b8a2edc221d

 <b>Adriaen Coorte</b>
(1665 – 1707)

 

Adriaen Coorte was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes, who signed works between 1683 and 1707. He painted small and unpretentious still lifes in a style more typical of the first half of the century, and was "one of the last practitioners of this intimate category".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaen_Coorte

 

Still Life with Asparagus
1697
Oil on panel
25 x 20 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Still-Life-with-Asparagus--a10d24c9b6d2774e912db7afe05fb4ff

Abraham van Beyeren
(1620 – 1690)
 

Abraham Hendriksz van Beijeren or Abraham van Beyeren was a Dutch Baroque painter of still lifes. Little recognized in his day and initially active as a marine painter, he is now considered one of the most important painters of still lifes, and still lifes of fish and so-called 'pronkstillevens', i.e. sumptuous still lifes of luxurious objects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_van_Beijeren

Banquet Still Life
after 1655     
Oil on canvas
99.5 x 120.5 cm
Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-collection/artworks/1056-banquet-still-life 

 

 

 Willem Kalf   
(1619 – 1693)

Willem Kalf was one of the most prominent Dutch still-life painters of the 17th century, the Dutch Golden Age. We first get acquainted with Willem Kalf through Arnold Houbraken, in his Groot Schilderboek, who speaks very highly of him. In fact, Kalf was a highly regarded and celebrated artist during his own lifetime. This was due to his extensive art knowledge and what we gain from Houbraken, his affable personality. His claim to fame now rests mostly on his mature still lifes, pronkstilleven in Dutch, which feature the most exotic and luxurious objects. This can be seen in for example, Still life with nautilus beaker and porcelain lidded bowl from 1662, which became an iconic piece of western art. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Kalf

Still Life with a Silver Jug and a Porcelain Bow
1655 - 1660
Oil on canvas
73.8 cm x width 65.2 cm
Rijksmuseum
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Still-Life-with-a-Silver-Jug-and-a-Porcelain-Bowl--4e711e3145b1a3937a6b88a2586e1a92

Jan Davidsz. de Heem
(1606 – 1684)

Jan Davidsz. de Heem or in-full Jan Davidszoon de Heem, also called Johannes de Heem or Johannes van Antwerpen or Jan Davidsz de Hem, was a still life painter who was active in Utrecht and Antwerp. He is a major representative of that genre in both Dutch and Flemish Baroque painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Davidsz._de_Heem

Banquet Still Life
1643, 
Oil on canvas    
155 x 211 cm

Private collection

https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6298660 

 Rachel Ruysch 
(1664 – 1750)

 

Rachel Ruysch was a Dutch still-life painter from the Dutch Republic. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful career that spanned over six decades, she became the best documented female painter of the Dutch Golden Age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Ruysch

Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop
1716
Oil on Canvas
48.5 x 39.5
Het rijksmuseum, Amsterdam    
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Still-Life-with-Flowers-on-a-Marble-Tabletop--570d1419506e38cb3916f640fe5a2328

 

 

 Willem Claesz Heda
(1593 – 1680)
 

Willem Claeszoon Heda was a Dutch Golden Age painter from the city of Haarlem devoted exclusively to the painting of still life. He is known for his innovation of the late breakfast genre of still life painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Claesz._Heda

Still Life with a Gilt Cup
1635
Oil on panel
87.8 x 112.6    
Het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Still-Life-with-a-Gilt-Cup--4617db9a8506653eb2437fc6bde903fd

 Pieter Claesz 
(1597 – 1660)
 

Pieter Claesz was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes. 
He was born in Berchem, Belgium, near Antwerp, where he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1620. He moved to Haarlem in 1620.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Claesz

Still Life with a salt tub
1644
Oil on panel
52.6 x 44.1 cm
Het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Still-Life-with-a-Salt--2637bbf744ee4830a973b9c38e82b3c2

 <b>Clara Peeters</b>    
(1607 – 1676)
 

Clara Peeters was a Flemish still-life painter from Antwerp who worked in both the Spanish Netherlands and Dutch Republic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Peeters

 

Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels
C. 1615
Oil on panel
34.5 x 49.5 cm    
Mauritshuis collection
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-collection/artworks/1203-still-life-with-cheeses-almonds-and-pretzels

Juan Sánchez Cotán
(1560 – 1627)

Juan Sánchez Cotán was a Spanish Baroque painter, a pioneer of realism in Spain. His still lifes and bodegones were painted in an austere style, especially when compared to similar works in the Netherlands and Italy.     

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Sánchez_Cotán

Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber
c. 1602
Oil on canvas
67.8 cm × 88.7 cm    
San Diego Museum of Art
https://collection.sdmart.org/objects-1/info/1358

 <b>Caravaggio</b>
(1571 - 1610)

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggi

Basket of Fruit
circa 1597
Oil on canvas 
67.5 x 54.5 cm
Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Piazza Pio XI, 2 Milano
https://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/opere-arte/schede/L0030-00020/