Charles Ethan Porter’s Strawberries (1888) provides an excellent opportunity to examine late 19th century representations of food, dining rituals, and how national conversations shaped domestic experiences, and how those experiences were further nuanced by gender, class, race, and mass production. Porter, who was African American and from Hartford, CT, used still life painting to realize for himself, his family, and his community a way to escape the hardship and impoverishment of his early life.

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Image: Charles Ethan Porter (1847–1923), Strawberries, 1888. Oil on canvas, Florence Griswold Museum, Gift of The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company.

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