Bouquet of Roses

Charles Ethan Porter American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 764

This plaque is Porter’s only known decorative artwork, dating to his association with the Society of Decorative Arts in Hartford, Connecticut. At that time the Hartford home of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was being designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Associated Artists—a leading purveyor of Aesthetic Movement design. Porter, who knew Clemens, also experimented with other Aesthetic subjects and formats in oil and watercolor painting, the only known Black American painter to do so. Both the unusual medium and the narrow horizontal format suggest an experimental approach to what would become a favorite subject for the artist.

Bouquet of Roses, Charles Ethan Porter (1847–1923), Enamel on porcelain, American

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Bouquet of Roses, Charles Ethan Porter (1847–1923), Enamel on porcelain, American
Bouquet of Roses, Charles Ethan Porter (1847–1923), Enamel on porcelain, American

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