We are going to be reading a nonfiction book by Mark Doty: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon. This page will include images referenced in that book as well as information about the author, samples of his poems not included your coursepack, etc. At left is the title image of the book, “Still Life with Glass and Oysters” by the Dutch artist Jan Davidsz de Heem.
Click here for a better/more accurate/at least LARGER reproduction of the de Heem painting on the Met’s web site.
For a narrated slideshow of other still life paintings from the Met in New York, go here and scroll down until you see the “Multimedia” section in the right column.
Here is another painting Doty discusses, (p. 21) Still Life with Quinces, Medlars and a Glass by Martinus Nellius.
See many more Dutch still life paintings at the Rijksmuseum website.
