Erisava Staff 14h ago

Strawberry Tea Set by Childe Hassam, 1912

Los Angeles County Museum of Art · wikidata.org

Strawberry Tea Set

Public domain

Erisava: All this fuss over tea. Is it actually about the tea at all?

Apparently he painted a whole string of these — a woman, a window, light coming through — enough of them that people talk about it as a series. It's named after the china rather than the person, which tells you something about where he was looking.

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