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  • Collection: Edith Fetherston Oeuvre

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/SableVestedNight.tiff
Sable Vested Night shows a figure of a woman standing among two types of larger-than-life flowers with some birds overhead. One type of flower is a white and yellow orchid, and three grow from the right side of this painting, with a few large green…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/plumblossoms.tiff
The background of Plum Blossoms is light green covered with white paint that looks sponged on. In the bottom right is a green vase decorated with a circular decoration with a black center enhanced by alternating black and green triangular forms with…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/LaNuitdeMai.tiff
In this virtually monochromatic painting the artist first applied a light gray background that is occasionally broken with light green and purple brushstrokes. In places she allowed it to drip in wide patches that bore a resemblance to clouds when…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/nepalmonkeygod.tiff
In this work five pink and green monkeys with orange tails play around a bed of four masdevallia orchids. The orchids have green and white centers and three red elongated petals, and are all placed in a row along the bottom of the composition. Two…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/WasIstLeben.tiff
Was ist Leben? shows a dark green vase decorated with vegetal patterns on the belly and three bands on the neck. A lily and green bushy plant are in the vase. Perched on its rim is a hummingbird. Fetherston said that in Was ist Leben?, "The…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/valeofkashmir.tiff
Two transparent poppies -- one white and orange and the other orange and yellow -- are the subject of this painting. The background is made up of large patches of gray on the top and bottom with gray and peach patches in the middle. The canvas shows…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/dryasoctopetala.tiff
At the center of Dryas Octopetala is a light green and brown column-like vase containing a bouquet of white daisies. About eight daisies are growing in different directions, among a group of small green leaves and stems. The background is a light…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/TheChocolateEasterEgg.tiff
The Chocolate Easter Egg shows a decorated egg-shaped brown-grey vase decorated with a white vine scroll pattern and a white band filled with a strigill pattern. Three different types of orchids are in the vase. The center group flowers are orange…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/flirtation.tiff
he Flirtation, according to the artist, shows an orchid flirting with tulips. There are two yellow tulips on the right side of the painting, and two red and two purple on the left side. Directly behind the red and purple tulips is the taller orchid…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/turquoisevase.tiff
In The Turquoise Vase a single turquoise vase, holding two stems of flowers floats against a dark mustard-colored background broken by horizontal and vertical brushstrokes of gray. The spherical vase sits on a round base, has a short neck and is…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/fantasy3.tiff
This smaller painting, entitled Fantasy, shows various objects and figures including a black teapot, some small purple and orange flowers coming out of it, and a rose bush. Small figures dance in the lower corners of the painting. They are…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/relativity.tiff
Speed Mass vs. Rest Mass, alternatively titled Relativity, shows an Asian sculpture of a warrior and a grouping of three dogs. The sculpture floats against the surface behind the dogs. The sculpture that appears to be a worrior wears blue and gold…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/Swans.tiff
Swans shows a scene of a bevy of swans distributed across a gray- green lake painted with long horizontal brushstrokes. The head and neck of a large, well-defined swan, surrounded by three flowers and a lily pad fills the lower right corner of the…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/SungVase1.tiff
This smaller painting, entitled Fantasy, shows various objects and figures including a black teapot, some small purple and orange flowers coming out of it, and a rose bush. Small figures dance in the lower corners of the painting. They are…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/NightSceneonPlanetR.tiff
A yellow-red shape across the middle is applied with heavy paint, and overlaps some purple and green orchids that are spanning the painting diagonally. In the bottom section of the painting, three tigers appear to be circling a white form hanging…
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