Eric Wert: "Still Life"

This hardcover Smyth-sewn 10-inch x 10-inch casebound book with jacket includes 128 pages and more than 100 full-color reproductions. It is also personally signed by Eric, whose family has a long history with Kittelson & Associates as well as the kind of causes that KCF focuses upon. It will make a wonderful Christmas gift or a significant enhancement to your own home!

Eric Wert’s flowers, fruits, and vegetables are the stuff of a florist’s or farmer’s perfection—objects of incomparable beauty, hyperrealistic, radiant, and arranged in a tumult that’s filled with life. Commentary on the wondrous nature of life and death, Wert’s compositions also exist within the tradition of still life, taking cues from masters such as Rachel Ruysch, Henri Fantin-Latour, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, and more.

Born in 1976 and raised in Oregon on twenty-five acres of tree- and critter-filled land, Wert developed an observant eye for the details amidst a visual onslaught. His studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago led to work as a scientific illustrator at the Field Museum of Natural History. After earning an MFA from Northwestern University, the artist began to create the paintings documented here: a body of work that establishes Wert as a modern master.

The fair market value of this autographed book is at least $45.00.

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Thank you so much to Eric's mother Mike Wert who donated this outstanding auction item in support of student education. Her long-time connection with Kittelson & Associates, her constant support of KCF, and her unending parallel efforts to help young girls in Zambia rise to their potential are simultaneously humbling and inspiring.