Roses in a Vase
Hiester Reid, a Pennsylvania-born artist, trained in Philadelphia at the School of Design for Women as well as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. At the Academy, she met Canadian George Agnew Reid, whom she married in 1885. Moving to Toronto, they established a home-studio in a garden community there, inspired by the principles of the Arts and Crafts movement. In the 1890s Hiester Reid became known as Canada’s premier painter of floral still lifes distinguished by subtle tonal harmonies and compositional rhythms, one of which she exhibited at the Chicago fair.
Artwork Details
- Title: Roses in a Vase
- Artist: Mary Hiester Reid (1854–1921)
- Date: 1891
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 14 × 18 in. (35.6 × 45.7 cm)
- Credit Line: Purchase, Barbara G. Fleischman Gift, 2023
- Object Number: 2023.279
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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