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The background of The Mauvre Butterfly, or Potentilla uniflora is a wash of gray and white horizontal brushstrokes. In the center of the painting is a cylindrical ribbed black planter that rests on three feet. Inside is a yellow buttercup with seven…

Teddy is a portrait of the Fetherston’s German shepherd dog. It is painted with a chocolate-brown background that frames the bust of the dog. The paint here is thickly applied making both Teddy and the background look dense and solid, despite the…

The Cretan Snake Goddess depicts a statuette of Cretan Snake Goddess in profile view. She wears a flounced skirt and a crown. She stands in a patch of small white daisies and slightly larger blue flowers. The background is created with different…

The Centipede shows a blue gray vase with a round bottom and a long thin neck holding three types of flowers. To the left are orchids of green, red, and purple. Toward the right is a bell-like flower of steel gray and then hanging out of the vase…

Columbines or Girls Bathing in a River shows a group of women bathing in a river. On the left side is the upper portion of a woman partially covered by a brown and yellow columbine. There is a pair of legs at the bottom of the painting, also…

A vase with two handles from which loops hangs sits at the center of Yellow Violets. It has an egg-shaped body and a long neck that fans out at the rim. The vase holds a yellow violet with three blossoms and two buds. There are five drooping…

In The Giant and the Dwarf two different orchid plants are shown in juxtaposition to one another against a background of blended light mauve, green, and yellow. On the right are light purple orchids with yellow and white accents. They have a green…

The Bee is Thee, alternatively titled Confucius, He Ate Sparingly, depicts a statue of a Chinese figure staring straight out at the viewer from the center of the canvas. On the right side of the painting are five large white flowers with pink and…

In this work three blue kneeling figures facing inwards fill three of the four the corners. In between are several yellow daisy-like flowers, brown cactus-like plants, and a green mask. Above is a green pot resting on three legs with flowers. On…

Fetherston said about this work, "When I painted this painting I wished you to hear music, church bells, stars, music, etc." A blue white and green groin vault frames the ambiguous space of this painting. A circular window allows the view of a…

Sang de Boeuf. depicts a deep maroon colored vase with a wide round base, a bulging body, and a medium neck with a flaring rim. It is placed slightly to the left of the center of the canvas. In it are two orchids with white petals that have red…

The surface of The Tang Ewer is covered in a white transparent wash that is so thin in places that it reveals a tan surface beneath it. At the center of this composition is a deep green ewer with a bulbous lower section and an egg-shaped upper…

The Birth of Venus depicts some pink orchids and petals against an abstract background that suggests that vaguely suggests a reddish landscape with a deep blue sky. An explosive area of white paint near the center of the composition might represent…

In Serenity a decorative green vase with an elaborate base and two handles is placed slightly left of center. There is a branch of about nine blue and green flowers inside of it. To the lower left is a yellow standing robed figure with two ribbons…

The painting is dominated by a large dark purple vase with a small neck and mouth. A Cattleya Superba, a South American plant that flowers in July and August, is placed in the vase. There are five flowers painted in shades of purple, red, and…