Still Lifes
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Still Lifes oil/canvas
Glass Pitcher, Mexican Rug, and Egg
oil/canvas
21" x 17"
$400.00

This painting reflects my desire to create a
well organized painting using ordinary objects
realistically painterly. Framed in a light colored wood.
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Roses
oil/panel
16 x 12
$200.00

A well worn subject. I admired the way Manet and others painted the floral still life and made it fresh every time. For me capturing the changing light was the key to success here.

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Swiss Army Knife and Orange Slice
oil/canvas
18" x 14"
$400.00

A much enlarged jack knife with a slice of fruit are the subjects of this still life. The whole painting employs a thick paint. The idea here being to evoke the juiciness of fruit by the viscosity of the paint.
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Fruit on a Blue Sink
oil/canvas
18" x "26
$400.00

A mid-sized painting. Once again my expressionist leanings overcame my love of
Realism. The diagonal direction of the faucet
helps underly the leftward movement of fruit.

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Autumn Floral
oil/panel
16" x 19"
$400.00

This still life with flowers emerging from a ceramic mixing bowl was painted over an earlier painting which provided some areas of color as well as a useful texture.

Framed in a thick black frame.
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Glass, Fork, and Alarm clock
oil/canvas
11" x 11"
$250.00

An interesting composition with the small
traveling alarm clock almost hidden behind
the glass of water. Thinking of modern
painters like Morandi and Diebenkorn. Framed in a light colored wood.

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Coffee Cup
oil/canvas
11" x 10"
$250.00

Again a small painterly image of a common
object. The radiating pattern of brush marks
probably giving this humble subject more significance than it warrants.
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Still Lifes oil/panel
Flowers Against Buff Wall # 3
oil/panel
10 x 8
$250.00

This is one of four flower paintings that used
the same composition but changed the lighting. The large violet shadow and its adjacent orange daisy blossom provide the key focus.

Framed in a beautiful silver frame.

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Still Lifes oil/canvas
Glass and Fork, Yellow
oil/canvas
11" x 11"
$250.00

Framed in a light colored wood.
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Still Lifes oil/canvas
Swept Away
oil/canvas
14" x 11"
$400.00

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Still Lifes oil/canvas
Momento Mori with Cartoon Characters
oil/canvas
18" x 20"
$400.00
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Still Life with Crust of Bread
oil/canvas
14" x 18"
$400.00

Cast iron toy train sits on a block of wood. Deep shadows.

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Still Lifes oil/canvas
Blue Box with a Crust of Bread #3
oil/canvas
20" x 18"
$400.00
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Still Lifes oil/canvas
Blue Box, Cast Iron Locomotive, on Persian Rug
oil/canvas
21" x 17"
$400.00

Framed in a light colored wood.

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Cow by the City
oil/canvas
15" x 14"
$400.00

Using a stuffed cow, I envisioned some comic scenes where Cow would be the subject. Cow by the City is one of my favorites. The City here is based on a couple of wooden toys. I created the menacing quality of Cow by lighting and the scale difference between Cow and the City.
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Blue Box with Bread Crust #3
oil/canvas
14" x 11"
$400.00

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Still Life - Lewis
oil/panel
27.5" x 33"
$600.00

Framed in a light colored wood.