Foliage, Flowers and Fruit of the Sapodilla Plum
by Marianne North
c.1880 / Oil on board / 10″x7 2/5″ / Marianne North Gallery, Kew Gardens, London, UK
Category Archives: Commemorative Months
December is Root Vegetables and Exotic Fruits Month! #21
Turnip by Odilon Redon
c.1875 / Oil on cardboard / 9″x12 4/5″ / Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
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December is Root Vegetables and Exotic Fruits Month! #20
Persimmon and Cicada, with poem by Chikujin (or Takehito)
Attributed to Katsushika Hokusai
Edo period / Surimono woodblock print in shikishiban format
7 11/16″x6 13/16″ / Various collections, including Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
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December is Root Vegetables and Exotic Fruits Month! #19
Artocarpus Altilis–Breadfruit by Charles T. Scowen
c.1873 / Albumen silver print from glass negative / 10 15/16″x8 11/16″
Various collections, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
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December is Root Vegetables and Exotic Fruits Month! #18
Potato Planters by Jean-François Millet
c.1861 / Oil on canvas / 32 1/2″x39 7/8″ / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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December is Root Vegetables and Exotic Fruits Month! #17
Papaya and Watermelon by Agostinho da Mota
1860 / Oil on canvas / 21″x25 1/2″ / Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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December is Root Vegetables and Exotic Fruits Month! #16
Man trying to cut a huge root vegetable
by Unknown Japanese Artist
No date / Carved Ivory Netsuke / 2 5/8″x3 1/2″x1 15/16″
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, MO
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December is Root Vegetables and Exotic Fruits Month! #15
Marion Feasting the British Officer on Sweet Potatoes
by George Washington Mark
1848 / Oil on canvas / 31 7/8″x37 7/16″ / National Gallery of Art, DC
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George Washington Mark painted another version of this scene the same year.
That canvas is part of the collection of the New-York Historical Society.
December is Root Vegetables and Exotic Fruits Month! #14
Mice and Daikon Radish by Utagawa Hiroshige
c.1840s / Color woodblock print on paper / 9″x6 1/2″
Various collections, including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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December is Root Vegetables and Exotic Fruits Month! #13
Still Life with Vegetables by James Peale
1826 / Oil on canvas / 20″x26 1/2″ /
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Misty Miss Christy 