Great American Still Life: A Composition with Artichoke, Apple, Apricot, and Foil

Great American Still Life: A Composition with Artichoke, Apple, Apricot, and Foil
Lowell Tolstedt

Artist Biography
Acquisition Number: 2005.9
Medium: Colored pencil on paper
Size: 13" x 19 3/4"
Date: 2004
Credit: Margretta Bockius Wilson Fund

Tolstedt has a national reputation for highly realistic renderings of pieces of fruit or bits of candy. He revels in the crinkly textures of tin foil and its reflections. In depicting these simple, everyday items, he’s asking us to take a closer look at the things that are generally taken for granted, and notice their beauty.