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Winter Art Show

December 2023
1min read

American still-life painters of the nineteenth century were enormously fond of cigar boxes, folded newspapers, and half-finished glasses of wine. In 1878 John F. Peto, one of the masters of the genre, turned his attention to a more idiosyncratic pleasure: peppermint candy spilling from a bag.

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