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  • Collection: Edith Fetherston Oeuvre

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/OrchidfromNewGranada.tiff
A light orange, white, beige, and green background establishes an ambiguous setting for this painting of an orchid. The orchid with pink and light blue flowers fills the bottom portion of the painting. While the colors of the flowers vary, they…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/orchidoranmountain.tiff
This abstract painting includes a grouping of yellow flowers with red centers at the bottom. The rest of the painting is primarily yellow, with scattered green, red and pink patches that might represent flowers and leaves.

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/ArcticCranberriesinaLangVase.tiff
Vaccinium vitisidaea minus Loddiges, or Arctic Cranberries in a Lang Vase depicts a vase holding three stems of arctic cranberries. The vase itself is bluish gray with turquoise glaze dripped down its the neck. It floats against the background…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/AstartetheGoddessofLove.tiff
In this oil painting on canvas entitled, Astarte, The Goddess of Love, a group of blacked-eyed susans grow out of a four-legged, dark gray pot that floats against a white, blue, and gray scumbled background. The background has been created with a…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/BleedingHearts.tiff
Bleeding Hearts, as the title suggests, depicts multiple stems of bleeding hearts painted in red with white highlights. The arrangement of the flowers is haphazard with flowers spreading in all directions. The flowers are placed against a light…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/CherryBlossoms.tiff
In this work a green vase decorated with lighter green diamonds holds a curved stem of cherry blossoms. On the right is a very small dancing figure wearing a gown and headdress, holding two ribbon-like forms in its hand. On the bottom left beneath…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/cocktailparty.tiff
In this painting five roosters walk towards the left of the painting. One bends down and pecks at a tomato. The tomato is roughly in the center of the animals. The background is an impressionistic rendering of grass, with small repetitive blue…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/columbines.tiff
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…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/DawnintheBuffaloValley.tiff
Animals and plants of different scales are scattered throughout this composition making this a collection of images rather than a single coherent scene. Their relative sizes of the plants and animals bear no relation to reality, for example, a blue…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/dawnovertheforest.tiff
Dawn Over the Forest was once part of Fetherston’s Exit the Bear from which it was cut and repainted. The small trees and other gray-green-blue vegetation in the foreground were part of the original composition although the artist added a line…

Debutantes depicts a vast desert landscape with some large flowers in the foreground. The ground is a wash of browns and grays that meets the sky at a hard, straight horizon line. The sky is a wash of yellows, oranges, and blues. One pink orchid…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/desertflower.tiff
There are red and purple buds dispersed in diagonal lines floating throughout the painting, and in the foreground are orange and yellow larger flowers. In the bottom left hand corner is a grouping of pink flowers on a green ground. The background…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/Dogwood.tiff
This composition is a mass of pink flowers with purple centers, with green leaves showing scattered throughout the flowers. The paint is applied thickly.

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/EnflamedinCelestialFire.tiff
The composition of Enflamed with Celestial Fire revolves around a nude woman dancing on a beach beneath rays of light emanating from a cloud. Her reflection is visible in the water beneath her while another figure swims toward her, from the left…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/ethiopia1.tiff
In the lower left hand section of this work, a group of three giraffes surround an orchid plant. The orchid mimics the giraffes by having the same coloring, but with a blue center. The background is a gray-brown wash that has been allowed to bleed…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/Exitthebear.tiff
This work was originally a portion of a larger painting. It shows two bears, one an adult and the other a cub on his hind legs. In the foreground on the left is a large round pink flower with green leaves. Hints of pink and yellow flowers are…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/fantasy4.tiff
Fantasy is painted on a tall, narrow canvas. The composition of this work is composed by four different types of orchids, including a light purple and white flower on a thin branch at the bottom. A second orchid with petals that are dark on the…
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