Painting Oil on Canvas by Zoma Baitler: Roses, Framed

A dark jug, a lot of pale roses, and no hurry in the room.

Roses is a framed oil on canvas by Zoma Baitler, Uruguayan, 1908 to 1994, from about 1960. Flower still lifes have long been made for domestic walls, and they give a painter a free hand with color and light in a subject anyone can love. Cream and yellow blooms rise with dark leaves from a brown jug on a pale cloth, with small fruit beside it. Muted greens and browns stand behind, and a signature sits at lower right. A wide silver-toned frame holds it. Twenty-eight and three-quarters inches wide and thirty-three high.

They have not wilted yet.