Ilse Lanphere Signed Oil Still Life — Peaches & Grapes, Las Cruces NM Artist View Watchlist >
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Ilse Lanphere Signed Oil Still Life — Peaches & Grapes, Las Cruces NM Artist
A warm, traditional still life by Ilse Lanphere of Las Cruces, New Mexico, signed in green at the lower right and rendered in oil on Masonite. The composition centers on a dark glazed bowl heaped with ripe peaches and a cluster of deep-purple grapes, framed by broad grape leaves and a curling tendril that reaches toward the upper edge of the panel. The artist works in the academic still-life tradition — careful modeling, a muted palette of ochres and umbers behind the saturated fruit, and a tabletop rendered in long horizontal strokes.
The verso carries the artist's handwritten label in two places: "Ilse Lanphere, 1806 Carver Rd., Las Cruces, N.M. 88005" with a phone number, placing the work firmly in the Mesilla Valley regional artist circle. Housed in a wide stepped wood frame with a warm gilt-toned finish that complements the painting's earthen tones.
CONDITION
Painting grades Very Good with fine craquelure visible across the fruit and background — typical of oil on Masonite of this age and not detracting. Frame grades Good with wear, minor scuffs, and small losses to the gilt finish along the outer edges and corners.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Overall Framed: 21" H × 25" W
- Visible Image: 16" H × 20" W
- Medium: Oil on Masonite
- Signature: "Ilse" in green, lower right
- Verso: Artist's handwritten address label, Las Cruces, NM
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Ilse Elizabeth Stauff Lanphere was German-born self-taught artist who lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico from 1960 onward. Where many mid-century painters working the German village genre leaned toward the picturesque, Lanphere's compositions hold their ground: the brushwork is measured, the light studied, the structures rendered with the kind of spatial confidence that comes from having lived inside them rather than visiting them. She signed her work simply "ILSE," and her paintings circulated primarily within private collections in Doña Ana County, where she and her husband Robert made their home.
