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Albert Joseph Moore
English, 1841–1893
Lilies
1866
Drawn to the philosophy of making “art for art’s sake”, Moore emphasized the formal elements of this painting, its color and design, over narrative subject matter. The painting’s title, Lilies, redirects our attention from the reclining figure to the painting’s decorative details—the lilies growing from the blue-and-white vase, the rug on the floor, the subtle folds and textures of the various fabrics, and the way these details combine to make a balanced composition.
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
11 11/16 x 18 7/8 in. (29.7 x 47.9 cm)
Object Number
1955.818
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Image Caption
Albert Joseph Moore, Lilies, 1866, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.818
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Bailey Van Hook.. "Decorative Images of American Women.". Smithsonian Studies in American Art, The Aristocratic Aesthetic of the Late Nineteenth Century.:pp. 45-70..
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
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Spencer-Longhurst, Paul. The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s. Exhibition catalogue. London: Scala Publishers in association with the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, 2000.
Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
[French Gallery, London, in 1866]; Alexander Shannan Stevenson, Tynemouth (by 1873); William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, Thornton Manor, Wirral, Merseyside (d. 1925, his sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 18 Feb. 1926, no. 182, sold to Scott & Fowles); [Scott & Fowles, New York, 1926–28, sold to Clark, 1 Feb. 1928]; Robert Sterling Clark (1928–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
