Washington Winter Show 2023

42 abstract painting by her daughter Eliza Moore, while in her dining room James Seymour’s Chaise Match Run from the mid-eighteenth century was complemented by a simple pine sideboard fabricated by the carpenters on her estate. On the opposite wall Rene Princeteau’s sparse and evocative Riders on the Beach at Dieppe provided an almost abstract counterpoint. Bunny Mellon’s imaginative talent is on full display in every aspect of the library she designed in the late 1970s with the celebrated architect by Edward Larrabee Barnes. They worked together to envisage a structure defined by geometric shapes and silhouettes that contrast with the rolling hills of the northern Virginia Piedmont, but that also Oak Spring Garden Library, Old Wing, east wall, with paintings arranged by Mrs. Mellon: center, Mark Rothko (1903–1970), Untitled, 1954; top left, Cristoforo Munari (1667–1720), Still Life with a Quince, an Apple, Lemons, and three Chinese blue-and-white cups, ca. 1700, and Gillis Gillisz de Berch (1600–1669), Still Life with Peaches, a Caterpillar, and a Bird ; bottom left, Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (1573–1621), Still Life of Variegated Tulips, Roses, a Hyacinth, a Primrose, a Violet, Forget-me-nots, a Columbine, Lily-of- the-valley, a Cyclamen, a Marigold and a Carnation, all in a glass vase, with a Butterfly and a Housefly, 1606, private collection (previously in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon), and Mary Ellen Sarg Best (1809–1891), Anthony Sarg and the three children, ca. 1847; top right, Sophie Grandval (b. 1936), Fleurs de carotte (Queen Anne’s lace, Daucus carota), 1989; bottom right, Sophie Grandval (b. 1936), Dandelion, 1990. Greg Heins, photographer. Rene Pierre Charles Princeteau (1843–1914), Riders on the Beach at Dieppe, 1892. National Gallery of Art (Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon).