I’m often trying to show my children that there is more to life than the way you see it. Discovering unclear or unknown perspectives is the play and rigor of art. Today, we’re challenging ourselves to see pumpkins in new ways because… it’s Halloween!
Here are the examples that we are looking at from some top art collections. Do you have any other examples of artists picturing pumpkins?
Blue Bird Pumpkin by Paul Klee, 1939The Acorn and the Pumpkin by Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1881Boy with Pumpkin, late 19th – early 20th century, ChinaStruck Dumb by Richard Deacon, 1988Pumpkins by Inagaki Tomoo, 1955Triptychos Post Historicus: Repeated Secret by Braco Dimitrijevic, 1978-85Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit by Sir Nathaniel Bacon, 1620-5Venus on Fire by Erika Verzutti, 2013Pumpkins in the Sun by Leopoldo Méndez, 1944For to Be a Farmer’s Boy by Winslow Homer, 1887Gourd and Pumpkin on Tray by Edward Weston, 1927Covered Teapot in the Form of a Pumpkin, Russian, 1850s-1860sPumpkin Emptying (var. “Cinderella) from Sixteen Studies from Vegetable Locomotion by Hollis Frampoton, Marion Faller. 1975
