Anemones with Red Cloth, (painting).

Anemones with Red Cloth, (painting).

Blaine, Nell, 1922-1996, painter.

Anemones with Red Cloth, (painting).

Digital Reference:

30 x 18 1/4 in.

(Lower left:) N.B. signed

A vertical expressionist still life in warm vibrant colors. Pink and purple flowers with bold green leaves are gathered in a small vase atop a wide swath of painterly red and pink fabric. The fabric is dotted with a round orange and perhaps a small lemon. The backdrop is an abstracted pattern in blue and white with creamy yellow.

Still Life -- Flower -- Anemone

Still Life -- Fruit -- Orange

Still Life -- Fruit -- Lemon

Johnson Collection, The, 100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203, Spartanburg, South Carolina 29306 Accession Number: 2013.06.08

The work was exhibited in: Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection, which traveled to Georgia Museum of Art, Athens; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson; Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina; Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina; and Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, 2019-2021.

The Johnson Collection, 2021.

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