Painting Oil on Board by Sterling Strauser: Title, "Flowers in Dark Vase", Framed

Thick paint, a dark vase, and flowers that refuse to behave.

Flowers in Dark Vase is a framed painting by Sterling Strauser, from the United States, dated 1987. It is oil on board. Painters have long made flower still lifes for the walls of ordinary homes, bringing a season indoors, and they use them to test color and paint. Red, pink, yellow and blue blossoms stand out in heavy strokes against a pale, loosely brushed ground. The vase below is a single dark shape. A gold frame and linen liner surround it. Thirty-three and a half inches high and twenty-seven and a half wide.

Nobody here seems interested in botany.