Still Life with Chinese Tea Pot
Max Weber
American, born Russia. 1881–1961
1925
An oil on canvas still life in which Max Weber arranges a Chinese teapot, knife, and simple kitchenware to explore the formal relationships of color, shape, and volume within a modest domestic setting.
The eye is first caught by the cobalt-blue decoration of the squat teapot, then led across a compact, slightly skewed tabletop where thick, tactile brushstrokes render warm browns and cool greens that make ordinary objects feel quietly charged.
Bridging European modernism and American subjects, Weber adapts Cubist concerns with structure and surface to everyday interiors, helping make avant‑garde ideas resonate in U.S. art of the 1920s.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
20 x 24 1/8" (50.8 x 61.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Accession
155.1935
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