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  • Collection: Edith Fetherston Oeuvre

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

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/WhataGal.tiff
A heavily outlined brown, green, and yellow wooden bird is at the far left of the canvas. On the right is a geometric figure that resembles a sculpture painted red, green, and brown. The background is dark teal that has been applied so that…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/wavesandcorpuscles.tiff
Waves and Corpuscles depicts a scene of a young girl gracefully flinging herself off of a diving board. The artist explains that, "She is going through the air [and] creates Waves & Corpuscles, which are more alin [sic--alien?] than anything in the…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/wasistLeben2.tiff
According to the artist Was ist Leben? depicts a scene of “…Victoria Falls, Africa, where there is always a rainbow in the falls. The orangutan just can't understand what life is about.” In the work an orangutan pokes his head out from behind…

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/VignetteofLove.tiff
In Vignette of Love a flat mauve background is covered by three distinct images. On the left is a rooster facing outward. At the center is a turquoise vase with red rectangular decorations. Carefully drawn black and mauve orchids with yellow…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/VacciniumScoparium.tiff
At the center of the painting is a blue teapot with a very thin spout. Most of its surface is decorated with orange and yellow leaf-like shapes. In it are several branches of scoparium, which is a very delicate type of shrub with red berries. The…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/tomatococktail.tiff
In this painting a group of five white roosters with yellow legs and beaks wander around in a grassy field. The rooster at center bends down to examine a tomato. Three more roosters face the right and one other looks out past the scene. The grass…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/yellowbutterfly.tiff
The black and red, oval-shaped vase resting on a wide foot holds a plant with four main branches with green leaves and red, blue and yellow buds. On the second highest branch sits a yellow and blue butterfly in profile view. There is a tan painted…

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/WorldofDreams.tiff
The World of Dreams shows a collection of figures in a garden painted in an impressionist style. The flowers are indistinct, mostly shown as spots of color. At the center of the painting is a small group of pink, yellow, and white flowers that are…

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/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/tangewer.tiff
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…

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/SacredLotusofIndia.tiff
This painting shows a dark gray and black, three-footed bowl with two curling handles on either side. It holds one green lotus blossom and two blue ones, with two buds, and one seed pod. The background is white, pink, and blue.

http://www.projects.bucknell.edu/packwood/RedRose.tiff
The Red Rose shows a single red rose placed in a painted vase. The background is made up of abstract black and white paint. The vase is black and decorated with purple and green decoration and groupings of small white flowers. Fetherston’s style…
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