BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058368453 DTSTART:20251213T160000Z DTEND:20251213T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058369478 DTSTART:20251214T160000Z DTEND:20251214T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058371527 DTSTART:20251217T160000Z DTEND:20251217T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058372552 DTSTART:20251218T160000Z DTEND:20251219T010000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058373577 DTSTART:20251219T160000Z DTEND:20251219T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058375626 DTSTART:20251220T160000Z DTEND:20251220T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058377675 DTSTART:20251221T160000Z DTEND:20251221T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058378700 DTSTART:20251224T160000Z DTEND:20251224T200000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058380749 DTSTART:20251226T160000Z DTEND:20251226T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058382798 DTSTART:20251227T160000Z DTEND:20251227T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058383823 DTSTART:20251228T160000Z DTEND:20251228T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058385872 DTSTART:20251231T160000Z DTEND:20251231T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058387921 DTSTART:20260102T160000Z DTEND:20260102T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058388946 DTSTART:20260103T160000Z DTEND:20260103T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058390995 DTSTART:20260104T160000Z DTEND:20260104T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058392020 DTSTART:20260107T160000Z DTEND:20260107T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058394069 DTSTART:20260108T160000Z DTEND:20260109T010000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058395094 DTSTART:20260109T160000Z DTEND:20260109T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058397143 DTSTART:20260110T160000Z DTEND:20260110T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058399192 DTSTART:20260111T160000Z DTEND:20260111T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058400217 DTSTART:20260114T160000Z DTEND:20260114T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058402266 DTSTART:20260115T160000Z DTEND:20260116T010000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058403291 DTSTART:20260116T160000Z DTEND:20260116T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058405340 DTSTART:20260117T160000Z DTEND:20260117T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058406365 DTSTART:20260118T160000Z DTEND:20260118T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058408414 DTSTART:20260121T160000Z DTEND:20260121T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058410463 DTSTART:20260122T160000Z DTEND:20260123T010000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058411488 DTSTART:20260123T160000Z DTEND:20260123T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058413537 DTSTART:20260124T160000Z DTEND:20260124T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058415586 DTSTART:20260125T160000Z DTEND:20260125T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058416611 DTSTART:20260128T160000Z DTEND:20260128T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058418660 DTSTART:20260129T160000Z DTEND:20260130T010000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058419685 DTSTART:20260130T160000Z DTEND:20260130T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058421734 DTSTART:20260131T160000Z DTEND:20260131T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058422759 DTSTART:20260201T160000Z DTEND:20260201T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058424808 DTSTART:20260204T160000Z DTEND:20260204T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058426857 DTSTART:20260205T160000Z DTEND:20260206T010000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058427882 DTSTART:20260206T160000Z DTEND:20260206T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058429931 DTSTART:20260207T160000Z DTEND:20260207T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058431980 DTSTART:20260208T160000Z DTEND:20260208T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058433005 DTSTART:20260211T160000Z DTEND:20260211T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058435054 DTSTART:20260212T160000Z DTEND:20260213T010000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058437103 DTSTART:20260213T160000Z DTEND:20260213T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058438128 DTSTART:20260214T160000Z DTEND:20260214T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058440177 DTSTART:20260215T160000Z DTEND:20260215T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058441202 DTSTART:20260218T160000Z DTEND:20260218T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058443251 DTSTART:20260219T160000Z DTEND:20260220T010000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058445300 DTSTART:20260220T160000Z DTEND:20260220T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058446325 DTSTART:20260221T160000Z DTEND:20260221T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058448374 DTSTART:20260222T160000Z DTEND:20260222T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058450423 DTSTART:20260225T160000Z DTEND:20260225T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058452472 DTSTART:20260226T160000Z DTEND:20260227T010000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058453497 DTSTART:20260227T160000Z DTEND:20260227T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058455546 DTSTART:20260228T160000Z DTEND:20260228T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058457595 DTSTART:20260301T160000Z DTEND:20260301T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058458620 DTSTART:20260304T160000Z DTEND:20260304T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058460669 DTSTART:20260305T160000Z DTEND:20260306T010000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058461694 DTSTART:20260306T160000Z DTEND:20260306T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058463743 DTSTART:20260307T160000Z DTEND:20260307T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058464768 DTSTART:20260308T150000Z DTEND:20260308T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058466817 DTSTART:20260311T150000Z DTEND:20260311T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058468866 DTSTART:20260312T150000Z DTEND:20260313T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058469891 DTSTART:20260313T150000Z DTEND:20260313T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058471940 DTSTART:20260314T150000Z DTEND:20260314T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058473989 DTSTART:20260315T150000Z DTEND:20260315T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058475014 DTSTART:20260318T150000Z DTEND:20260318T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058477063 DTSTART:20260319T150000Z DTEND:20260320T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058479112 DTSTART:20260320T150000Z DTEND:20260320T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058480137 DTSTART:20260321T150000Z DTEND:20260321T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058482186 DTSTART:20260322T150000Z DTEND:20260322T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058484235 DTSTART:20260325T150000Z DTEND:20260325T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058485260 DTSTART:20260326T150000Z DTEND:20260327T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058487309 DTSTART:20260327T150000Z DTEND:20260327T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058490382 DTSTART:20260328T150000Z DTEND:20260328T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058491407 DTSTART:20260329T150000Z DTEND:20260329T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058493456 DTSTART:20260401T150000Z DTEND:20260401T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058495505 DTSTART:20260402T150000Z DTEND:20260403T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058497554 DTSTART:20260403T150000Z DTEND:20260403T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058498579 DTSTART:20260404T150000Z DTEND:20260404T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058499604 DTSTART:20260405T150000Z DTEND:20260405T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058501653 DTSTART:20260408T150000Z DTEND:20260408T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058503702 DTSTART:20260409T150000Z DTEND:20260410T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058504727 DTSTART:20260410T150000Z DTEND:20260410T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058506776 DTSTART:20260411T150000Z DTEND:20260411T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058508825 DTSTART:20260412T150000Z DTEND:20260412T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058509850 DTSTART:20260415T150000Z DTEND:20260415T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058511899 DTSTART:20260416T150000Z DTEND:20260417T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058512924 DTSTART:20260417T150000Z DTEND:20260417T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058514973 DTSTART:20260418T150000Z DTEND:20260418T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058515998 DTSTART:20260419T150000Z DTEND:20260419T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058517023 DTSTART:20260422T150000Z DTEND:20260422T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058519072 DTSTART:20260423T150000Z DTEND:20260424T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058520097 DTSTART:20260424T150000Z DTEND:20260424T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058522146 DTSTART:20260425T150000Z DTEND:20260425T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058524195 DTSTART:20260426T150000Z DTEND:20260426T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058525220 DTSTART:20260429T150000Z DTEND:20260429T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058527269 DTSTART:20260430T150000Z DTEND:20260501T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058528294 DTSTART:20260501T150000Z DTEND:20260501T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058530343 DTSTART:20260502T150000Z DTEND:20260502T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058531368 DTSTART:20260503T150000Z DTEND:20260503T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058533417 DTSTART:20260506T150000Z DTEND:20260506T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058534442 DTSTART:20260507T150000Z DTEND:20260508T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058536491 DTSTART:20260508T150000Z DTEND:20260508T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058538540 DTSTART:20260509T150000Z DTEND:20260509T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058539565 DTSTART:20260510T150000Z DTEND:20260510T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058541614 DTSTART:20260513T150000Z DTEND:20260513T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058543663 DTSTART:20260514T150000Z DTEND:20260515T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058544688 DTSTART:20260515T150000Z DTEND:20260515T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058546737 DTSTART:20260516T150000Z DTEND:20260516T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058548786 DTSTART:20260517T150000Z DTEND:20260517T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058550835 DTSTART:20260520T150000Z DTEND:20260520T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058552884 DTSTART:20260521T150000Z DTEND:20260522T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058553909 DTSTART:20260522T150000Z DTEND:20260522T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058555958 DTSTART:20260523T150000Z DTEND:20260523T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058558007 DTSTART:20260524T150000Z DTEND:20260524T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058559032 DTSTART:20260527T150000Z DTEND:20260527T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058561081 DTSTART:20260528T150000Z DTEND:20260529T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058562106 DTSTART:20260529T150000Z DTEND:20260529T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058563131 DTSTART:20260530T150000Z DTEND:20260530T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058565180 DTSTART:20260531T150000Z DTEND:20260531T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058567229 DTSTART:20260603T150000Z DTEND:20260603T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058568254 DTSTART:20260604T150000Z DTEND:20260605T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058572351 DTSTART:20260605T150000Z DTEND:20260605T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058573376 DTSTART:20260606T150000Z DTEND:20260606T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058575425 DTSTART:20260607T150000Z DTEND:20260607T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058577474 DTSTART:20260610T150000Z DTEND:20260610T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058578499 DTSTART:20260611T150000Z DTEND:20260612T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058580548 DTSTART:20260612T150000Z DTEND:20260612T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058581573 DTSTART:20260613T150000Z DTEND:20260613T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058583622 DTSTART:20260614T150000Z DTEND:20260614T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058584647 DTSTART:20260617T150000Z DTEND:20260617T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058586696 DTSTART:20260618T150000Z DTEND:20260619T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058587721 DTSTART:20260620T150000Z DTEND:20260620T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058589770 DTSTART:20260621T150000Z DTEND:20260621T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058591819 DTSTART:20260624T150000Z DTEND:20260624T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058592844 DTSTART:20260625T150000Z DTEND:20260626T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058594893 DTSTART:20260626T150000Z DTEND:20260626T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058595918 DTSTART:20260627T150000Z DTEND:20260627T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058597967 DTSTART:20260628T150000Z DTEND:20260628T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058598992 DTSTART:20260701T150000Z DTEND:20260701T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058601041 DTSTART:20260702T150000Z DTEND:20260703T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058602066 DTSTART:20260703T150000Z DTEND:20260703T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50481058604115 DTSTART:20260705T150000Z DTEND:20260705T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031238441 DTSTART:20260708T150000Z DTEND:20260708T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031239466 DTSTART:20260709T150000Z DTEND:20260710T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031240491 DTSTART:20260710T150000Z DTEND:20260710T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114605Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031241516 DTSTART:20260711T150000Z DTEND:20260711T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031243565 DTSTART:20260712T150000Z DTEND:20260712T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031244590 DTSTART:20260715T150000Z DTEND:20260715T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031245615 DTSTART:20260716T150000Z DTEND:20260717T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031246640 DTSTART:20260717T150000Z DTEND:20260717T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031248689 DTSTART:20260718T150000Z DTEND:20260718T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031249714 DTSTART:20260719T150000Z DTEND:20260719T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031251763 DTSTART:20260722T150000Z DTEND:20260722T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031253812 DTSTART:20260723T150000Z DTEND:20260724T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031254837 DTSTART:20260724T150000Z DTEND:20260724T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031256886 DTSTART:20260725T150000Z DTEND:20260725T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031257911 DTSTART:20260726T150000Z DTEND:20260726T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031258936 DTSTART:20260729T150000Z DTEND:20260729T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031260985 DTSTART:20260730T150000Z DTEND:20260731T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031262010 DTSTART:20260731T150000Z DTEND:20260731T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031264059 DTSTART:20260801T150000Z DTEND:20260801T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031265084 DTSTART:20260802T150000Z DTEND:20260802T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031267133 DTSTART:20260805T150000Z DTEND:20260805T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031268158 DTSTART:20260806T150000Z DTEND:20260807T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031270207 DTSTART:20260807T150000Z DTEND:20260807T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031271232 DTSTART:20260808T150000Z DTEND:20260808T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031273281 DTSTART:20260809T150000Z DTEND:20260809T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031274306 DTSTART:20260812T150000Z DTEND:20260812T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031275331 DTSTART:20260813T150000Z DTEND:20260814T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031277380 DTSTART:20260814T150000Z DTEND:20260814T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031278405 DTSTART:20260815T150000Z DTEND:20260815T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031280454 DTSTART:20260816T150000Z DTEND:20260816T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031281479 DTSTART:20260819T150000Z DTEND:20260819T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031283528 DTSTART:20260820T150000Z DTEND:20260821T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031284553 DTSTART:20260821T150000Z DTEND:20260821T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031286602 DTSTART:20260822T150000Z DTEND:20260822T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031287627 DTSTART:20260823T150000Z DTEND:20260823T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031288652 DTSTART:20260826T150000Z DTEND:20260826T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031290701 DTSTART:20260827T150000Z DTEND:20260828T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031291726 DTSTART:20260829T150000Z DTEND:20260829T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031293775 DTSTART:20260830T150000Z DTEND:20260830T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031294800 DTSTART:20260902T150000Z DTEND:20260902T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031295825 DTSTART:20260903T150000Z DTEND:20260904T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031296850 DTSTART:20260904T150000Z DTEND:20260904T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031298899 DTSTART:20260905T150000Z DTEND:20260905T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031300948 DTSTART:20260906T150000Z DTEND:20260906T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031302997 DTSTART:20260909T150000Z DTEND:20260909T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031306070 DTSTART:20260910T150000Z DTEND:20260911T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031309143 DTSTART:20260911T150000Z DTEND:20260911T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031311192 DTSTART:20260912T150000Z DTEND:20260912T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031313241 DTSTART:20260913T150000Z DTEND:20260913T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031315290 DTSTART:20260916T150000Z DTEND:20260916T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031317339 DTSTART:20260917T150000Z DTEND:20260918T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031319388 DTSTART:20260918T150000Z DTEND:20260918T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031322461 DTSTART:20260919T150000Z DTEND:20260919T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031325534 DTSTART:20260920T150000Z DTEND:20260920T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031327583 DTSTART:20260923T150000Z DTEND:20260923T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031330656 DTSTART:20260924T150000Z DTEND:20260925T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031331681 DTSTART:20260925T150000Z DTEND:20260925T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031332706 DTSTART:20260926T150000Z DTEND:20260926T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031334755 DTSTART:20260927T150000Z DTEND:20260927T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031336804 DTSTART:20260930T150000Z DTEND:20260930T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031337829 DTSTART:20261001T150000Z DTEND:20261002T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031339878 DTSTART:20261002T150000Z DTEND:20261002T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031341927 DTSTART:20261003T150000Z DTEND:20261003T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031343976 DTSTART:20261004T150000Z DTEND:20261004T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031346025 DTSTART:20261007T150000Z DTEND:20261007T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031348074 DTSTART:20261008T150000Z DTEND:20261009T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031351147 DTSTART:20261009T150000Z DTEND:20261009T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031353196 DTSTART:20261010T150000Z DTEND:20261010T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031355245 DTSTART:20261011T150000Z DTEND:20261011T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031356270 DTSTART:20261014T150000Z DTEND:20261014T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031357295 DTSTART:20261015T150000Z DTEND:20261016T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031359344 DTSTART:20261016T150000Z DTEND:20261016T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031360369 DTSTART:20261017T150000Z DTEND:20261017T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031362418 DTSTART:20261018T150000Z DTEND:20261018T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031363443 DTSTART:20261021T150000Z DTEND:20261021T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031366516 DTSTART:20261022T150000Z DTEND:20261023T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031368565 DTSTART:20261023T150000Z DTEND:20261023T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031370614 DTSTART:20261024T150000Z DTEND:20261024T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031371639 DTSTART:20261025T150000Z DTEND:20261025T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031373688 DTSTART:20261028T150000Z DTEND:20261028T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031374713 DTSTART:20261029T150000Z DTEND:20261030T000000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031376762 DTSTART:20261030T150000Z DTEND:20261030T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031378811 DTSTART:20261031T150000Z DTEND:20261031T210000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031380860 DTSTART:20261101T160000Z DTEND:20261101T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031381885 DTSTART:20261104T160000Z DTEND:20261104T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031383934 DTSTART:20261105T160000Z DTEND:20261106T010000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031384959 DTSTART:20261106T160000Z DTEND:20261106T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031387008 DTSTART:20261107T160000Z DTEND:20261107T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031388033 DTSTART:20261108T160000Z DTEND:20261108T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031389058 DTSTART:20261111T160000Z DTEND:20261111T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031391107 DTSTART:20261112T160000Z DTEND:20261113T010000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031393156 DTSTART:20261113T160000Z DTEND:20261113T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031395205 DTSTART:20261114T160000Z DTEND:20261114T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031396230 DTSTART:20261115T160000Z DTEND:20261115T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031397255 DTSTART:20261118T160000Z DTEND:20261118T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031398280 DTSTART:20261119T160000Z DTEND:20261120T010000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031399305 DTSTART:20261120T160000Z DTEND:20261120T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031401354 DTSTART:20261121T160000Z DTEND:20261121T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031402379 DTSTART:20261122T160000Z DTEND:20261122T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031403404 DTSTART:20261125T160000Z DTEND:20261125T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031406477 DTSTART:20261127T160000Z DTEND:20261127T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031407502 DTSTART:20261128T160000Z DTEND:20261128T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T114606Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51833031409551 DTSTART:20261129T160000Z DTEND:20261129T220000Z DESCRIPTION:American values take shape in the objects we make\, desire\, ch erish\, and discard. A table laden with ripe fruit\, a meal served up at a luncheonette\, the inside of a medicine cabinet—ordinary materials arou nd us chronicle our lives. The still life\, a genre of art that dates back to the ancient world\, captures those objects of everyday life while ofte n conveying deeper meanings and hidden messages.\n\nAs we celebrate the 25 0th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, Desire and Abundance features a selection from MAG’s collection of American st ill lifes\, spanning from the 1800s to the present. Taken together\, these artworks present an array of items that underscore shifting tastes in Ame rican art\, commerce\, and daily life.\n\nImage: John Francis\, Still Life with Fruits\, 1865\, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund\, 1971.7 GEO:43.157647;-77.588194 LOCATION:Memorial Art Gallery\, Forman Gallery SUMMARY:Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/desire-and-abundance-ameri can-culture-and-the-still-life CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR