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MARY ANN CURRIER
(American, born 1927)

White Onions on Bag, 20th century
Oil on canvas
Gift of Mrs. George Norton, Jr. 1984.3

Mary Ann Currier taught at the Louisville School of Art from 1968 to 1982, and was chairperson of the Foundation Program there for many years. While she is best known as a representational painter, Currier worked abstractly for a number of years. Her subjects show a continual interest in irregular geometries, a very careful study of light and form, and a reverence for artistic tradition. Although vastly different in scale, this still life is reminiscent of the studied quietude of still lifes by eighteenth-century painter Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin.