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Teaching Ideas

Anne Vallayer-Coster, Bouquet of Flowers in a Blue Porcelain Vase

In Focus

Paul Cezanne's Still Life with Apples on a Sideboard

In Focus

The Cubist Challenge

Artists & Designers

Gwen John (British, 1876–1939)

DMA Insight

Timeline of Margaret and Eugene McDermott's relationship with the Dallas Museum of Art

Teaching Ideas

Anne Vallayer-Coster, Bouquet of Flowers in a Terracotta Vase with Peaches and Grapes

DMA Insight

Munger Fund

Artists & Designers

Emilie Preyer (German, 1849–1930)

Artists & Designers

David Bates (b. 1952)

DMA Insight

Celebrating Texas Artists

Teaching Ideas

René Magritte, Persian Letters

Terms

Genre Painting (European)

Artists & Designers

Suzanne Valadon (French, 1865–1938)

DMA Insight

Severin Roesen's Later Works

DMA Insight

The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection

In Focus

Henri Matisse's Still Life: Bouquet and Compotier

Teaching Ideas

Abraham Hendricksz van Beyeren, Still Life with Landscape

Artists & Designers

Gerald Murphy (1888-1964)

Teaching Ideas

Gerald Murphy, Razor

In Focus

Ben Nicholson (1965 exhibition)

Historical Figures

Winston Churchill and Wendy and Emery Reves

DMA Insight

Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts Exhibitions

Artists & Designers

Peale Family (American artists)

In Focus

Pierre Bonnard's Joyous Exploration of Color

Times & Places

1920-1929, United States, "1920s America"

Terms

Still life ("nature morte")

Still life typically refers to a depiction of inanimate objects. In France, still lifes are called nature morte, literally "dead nature."

art genres
still life
subjects (content of works)
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