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Untitled (Cracked Watermelon)
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Untitled (Cracked Watermelon)

Charles Ethan Porter

ca. 1890

Medium

Oil on canvas

Tags

Still LifeFruit

Dimensions

19 1/8 × 28 3/16 in. (48.6 × 71.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Nancy Dunn Revocable Trust Gift, 2015

Department

The American Wing

Culture

American

About Charles Ethan Porter

1847–1923 • United States

Porter was a prolific African-American artist in Hartford, Connecticut known for his still-life paintings.

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