Morning, 1888, oil on canvas, Given in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kaufman by Mr. and Mrs. George Stricker, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Tobias, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. David H. Spritz, Jr., 1972.414

Verbal Description

Hello, my name is Eric Le Roy. I am the Associate Director of Docent Learning at the museum. I will be reading the verbal description for Morning, which appears in Henry Mosler Behind the Scenes: In Celebration of the Jewish Cincinnati Bicentennial.

Morning from 1888 is an oil painting on canvas. It was given to the museum in memory of Mr. And Mrs. Louis Kaufman by Mr and Mrs George Stricker, Mr and Mrs Charles H. Tobias, Jr, and Mr and Mrs David H. Spritz, Jr. The accession number is 1972.414

Morning is landscape-oriented and measures 44 inches by 59 and 1/16 inches. Here we see the dark interior of a home; the room may be the kitchen. An open window on the left side of the picture illuminates the scene. The painting is populated by several figures – two adult women and five small children. The woman in the center wears a starched white cap and collar and a dark dress. She sits at a large table with a small child on her lap whom she is feeding with a spoon. To the left is another small child holding a bowl to his or her face, obscuring it. Leaning over the high-backed bench on which the woman sits is another child in a white shirt. In front of the woman and to the left is a young girl standing on a stool with her back to the viewer. She rests her hands on a bench piled with bundles. On the floor in front of the table are several green cabbages. To the right of the central woman, there is another woman, perhaps a teen, helping another small child, who is standing on a bench, get dressed. Underneath the bench, we see a bundle of twigs and a brass vessel.

Label Text

Hello, my name is Eric Le Roy. I am the Associate Director of Docent Learning at the museum. I will be reading the label for Morning, which appears in Henry Mosler Behind the Scenes: In Celebration of the Jewish Cincinnati Bicentennial.

Morning from 1888 is an oil painting on canvas. It was given to the museum in memory of Mr. And Mrs. Louis Kaufman by Mr and Mrs George Stricker, Mr and Mrs Charles H. Tobias, Jr, and Mr and Mrs David H. Spritz, Jr. The accession number is 1972.414

Morning was among five Mosler paintings at the Paris Salon of 1889. It is a tribute to the seventeenth-century Dutch artists who loved rustic scenes of domestic life. Like the Dutch painters he admired, Mosler lavished devotion on every figure and tiny detail, down to the cabbage on the floor. The daylight penetrating through the window into the dark kitchen interior, a common Dutch motif, gently illuminates the tableau within and endows the ordinary scene with sanctity.

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