Still Life with Telephone

Maker Luigi Lucioni (American, 1900 - 1988)

Additional Title(s)

Through a Window

Collections

ClassificationsPAINTINGS

Date1926

Mediumoil on board

Dimensionsboard: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm.) frame: 31 1/4 × 27 1/4 × 2 1/8 in. (79.4 × 69.2 × 5.4 cm.)

DescriptionStill life of an interior with a table on which there is a near empty bottle of wine, a glass, apples, can of soup, and old-fashioned telephone, in front of an open window. Table cloth is rumpled and dis-sheveled.

SignedSigned and dated on recto in lower left: L. Lucioni 26

InscribedSigned and dated on recto in lower left: L. Lucioni 26

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from the Art Collectors' Council and the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation

Status

On view

Label TextLuigi Lucioni juxtaposed objects traditionally associated with artists' still lifes-fruit, a bottle, and drapery-with items associated with modern America: a can of Campbell's soup and a telephone. A glimpse of Washington Square Park in New York City can be seen through the open window.

Lucioni immigrated to New York from Italy as a child. At age 31, he became the youngest artist to have a painting-his still life Dahlias and Apples-purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Object number2006.7