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"The Vanity Of The Artist's Dream," Charles Bird King, 1830, Oil and graphite on canvas, 35 1/8 x 29 1/2", Harvard Art Museums. Harvard Art Museum, Handy Wallpaper, Antique Sculpture, Tinta China, Found Object Art, America Art, Still Life Art, Art Appreciation, Arte Fantasy

In this humorous still life, King pokes fun at popular taste and laments the plight of the arts in America. A masterful example of trompe l’oeil illusion, the painting depicts a cupboard filled with the possessions of an ambitious and well-educated but financially unsuccessful painter. Brushes, drafting tools, treatises on art, and a cast of the head of the Apollo Belvedere, the celebrated antique sculpture, are crammed in next to stacks of unpaid bills, letters from parsimonious patrons…

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