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Provenance
The artist.
[With] Doll & Richards, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts.
Childs Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Byron Radacker, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, February 1992.
Private collection, acquired from the above, April 1994.
D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Exhibited
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition: A View in Retrospect of Water Color Painting in Boston Over the Last Half Century, April 18-May 14, 1939, n.p., no. 139.
For her floral still lifes, Laura Coombs Hills often used bouquets that she handpicked and designed from her garden at her summer home in Newburyport, Massachusetts and would then set her arrangements against a backdrop of scarves and fabrics that she collected on her travels. In the present work, Hills achieves an elegant design by contrasting the vivid palette of bright red, pink, white, and purple flowers against the more subtle tones of the vase and decorative drapery in the background. Shortly after its completion, she exhibited Zinnias and Stock at the Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition: A View in Retrospect of Water Color Painting in Boston Over the Last Half Century organized by the Boston Society of Water Color Painters and the Boston Water Color Club hosted by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.