Large Fresh Garden

A still life of quiet abundance, the Large Fresh Garden arrests the eye with its layered composition and botanical generosity — the kind of piece that rewards prolonged looking. At ten inches tall and fourteen inches square, it occupies space with an authority that belies its intimate scale, holding its own against richly furnished walls without demanding to dominate them. John Richard's characteristic confidence with form and subject is fully present here, lending the work that rare editorial quality that distinguishes collected art from mere decoration.