Dessert Still Life
by Morston Constantine Ream (1840–1898)10 x 12 inches
Signed lower right: Morston Ream
Information
Provenance
Kathryn Wakefield Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, gift from above
Sale, Stair Galleries, Hudson, New York, April 22, 2017, lot 216
Private collection, New York, New York, acquired from above
Related Work
Still Life, 1876, oil on canvas, 32 1/16 x 25⅞ inches, signed and dated lower left: Morston Ream / 76; Brooklyn Museum, New York
Artist Biography
Morston Constantine Ream was an accomplished still-life painter in the nineteenth century. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, he began his artistic career in 1860 as a photographer using the early medium of daguerreotype. About 1868, he determined that contemporary photographic methods were detrimental to his health and turned to painting instead. Although Ream created some landscapes and genre scenes, his focus, like that of his brother Carducius, was on still-life painting. Influenced by John Ruskin’s writings, Ream approached his compositions with a determined realism and honesty; his previous experience with photography leant itself to this unaffected vision as well. He exhibited