Roses in a Vase

1891

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 766

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.

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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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