Mushroom Art Registry:
1850-1950

The dates following the artist’s name are often those of his period of greatest creativity, not necessarily the dates of his birth and death.

Some entries overlap with the Post-1950 period and may be found in that file.

Adam, Joseph Denovan. British. 1842-1896

Title: Deer in the Shade
Location: Not known
Mushroom description: At least one mushroom in a small declivity in the soil below the head of the cream colored standing doe. There may be another species below.
Web: Art Pictures
Note: Description by Susan Stewart, Memphis, TN

Anonymous, Danish?

Title: Untitled
Location: Palace Hotel, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1902
Mushroom description: Several carvings of edible mushrooms probably chanterelles, Macrolepiota procera, Boletus edulis on the stone façade of the
Note: Reported by T. Stijve

Armstrong, John. British. 1893-1973

Title: Still life with mushrooms and garlic
Mushroom description: Six cut caps, Agaricus bisporus
Reference: Gabrius website

Baar, Hugo. German. 1873-1912

Title: Forest with fly agarics
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Several Amanita muscaria
Reference: Gabrius website

Bartolena, Giovanni. Italian. Livorno 1866-1942

— A —
Title: Still life with mushrooms (Natura morta con funghi)
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Group of Boletus cf. pinophilus
Reference: Gabrius website
— B —
Title: Still life with mushrooms (Natura morta con funghi)
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Group of Hygrocybe sp.
Reference: Gabrius website
— C —
Title: Still life with mushrooms (Natura morta con funghi)
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Group of Hygrocybe sp.
Reference: Gabrius website

Becic, Vladimir. Croatian. 1886-1954

Title: Still Life with Mushrooms
Location: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
Mushroom description: Three capped mushrooms, probably boletes
Web: MMSU

Bilibin, Ivan. Russian. 1876-1942

Title: Illustration of Russian fairy tale called “Maria Morewna.”
Mushroom description: Several gilled mushrooms in the picture and others in the frame. Rare example of Art Nouveau mushroom painting.

Birolli, Renato. Italian. 1905-1959

Title: Woman with flowers in her hair (Donna con fiori nei capelli)
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Group of stylized boletes

Bligh, Jabez. British. Active 1863 -1889. (B. and d. dates not known.)

— A —
Title: Study of mushrooms and acorn
Medium: Watercolor and body color, mounted oval, 18.5 x 26 cm.
Location: Offered in auction by Lawrence Co., UK. Private collection
Mushroom description: Agaricus campestris
Web: Lawrences Auctioneers
— B —
Title: A basket of mushrooms
Medium: Watercolor on paper, 20x20.5 cm.
Location: Offered by Christopher Wood Gallery, London
Mushroom description: A basketful of Agaricus campestris, a few outside the basket
Web: Christopher Wood, Art Dealer and The Bridgeman Art Library
— C —
Title: A mushroom basket
Medium: Watercolor and body color. Signed. 16.25 x 20 cm
Location: Private collection
Mushroom description: Basket of Agaricus campestris, a few outside the basket
Web: Lawrences Auctioneers
— D —
Title: Mushrooms and oak leaves
Medium: Watercolor and body color, 12 x 19.5 cm.
Location: Private collection
Mushroom description: Two Agaricus campestris
— E —
Title: A Basket of Wild Mushrooms and Blackberries
Medium: Pencil, watercolor, body color, 25.5x29 cm.
Location: Private collection
Mushroom description: Eight Agaricus campestris
Web: Christopher Wood, Art Dealer
— F —
Title: Study of mushrooms
Medium: Watercolor, 20x35.5 cm.
Location: Private collection
Mushroom description: Four Agaricus campestris, two upside down, one with broken cap
Web: Bath Antiques Online and Christopher Wood, Art Dealer
— G —
Title: Mushrooms
Medium: Watercolor and gouache, 27.3x22.2 cm.
Location: Private collection
Mushroom description: Agaricus campestris in basket, a few outside basket, chestnuts
Web: The Bridgeman Art Library
— H —
Title: Study of mushrooms
Medium: Watercolor enhanced with body color, 16x22 cm.
Location: Private collection
Mushroom description: Group of five Agaricus campestris on the ground, two are caps without stem
Web: Lawrences Auctioneers
— I —
Title: Mushrooms by a bank
Medium: Watercolor enhanced with body color. 12.5x22 cm.
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: About eight Agaricus campestris, two turned over
Web: Lawrences Auctioneers

Boehm, Pal. Hungarian. 1839-1905

Title: The mushrooms collectors
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Basket of unidentifiable mushrooms
Reference: Gabrius website

Bouchard, F. French. Chalon-sur-Saône1866-Montret (Saône -et-Loire) 1947

Title: Still life with mushrooms
Medium: Watercolor on paper, 39.5 x 54.7
Location: Musées de Macon, France
Mushroom description: Basket of Boletus edulis
Reference : Hardouin-Fugiers, E. Les Peintures de Natures Mortes en France au XIX siecle. Paris: L’Edition de l’Amateur

Calder, Alexander. American. 1898-1976

— A —
Title: Mushroom, Triangle, Inverted Comma
Medium: Stabile, metal. 7.5 x 9 x 6 inches
Location: Private collection
Mushroom description: Stylized figure of a mushroom
Reference: Gabrius website
Web: City Review
— B —
Title: Funghi Neri (Black Mushrooms) 1957
Medium: Stabile. Sheet metal, bolts, and paint, 112 x 91 x 72 inches.
Location: Present location Unknown. First exhibited at Uffici Palazzo dell'arte al Parco in Milan, Italy, summer of 1957. Shown in Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2003.
Mushroom description: Stylized figures of mushrooms
Web: S. Harris

Chaucrin, René. French. ?1911-?1981

Title: Nature morte aux champignons
Location: Musée des Beaux-arts, Lyon
Reference: Joconde website

Chini, Galileo. Italian. Florence 1873-Lido de Caminone 1956

— A —
Title: Still life (Natura morta)
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Group of Boletus edulis and red-capped mushrooms
Web: Gabrius Website
— B —
Title: Still life with mushrooms and cyclamens (Natura morta con funghi e ciclamini)
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Group of Boletus edulis and Amanita caesarea
Web: Gabrius Website

Churberg, Fanny. Finnish. 1845-1892

— A —
Title: Still life with mushrooms
Medium: Oil on cloth, 48 x 58 cm.
Location: Ostrobothnian Museum, Karl Hedman collection, Vaasa, Finland
Mushroom description: Chanterelles, russulas, boletes
— B —
Title: Mushrooms. 1877
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Cantharellus cibarius, Lactarius sp.
Reference: Okkonen, O. Die finnische Kunst. Berlin: W. Limpert-Verlag, 1943.

Clare, Oliver. British. 1853-1927

Title: Flowers and Bird’s Nest with Butterfly and Mushroom
Location: Private collection
Mushroom description: Single upside down, Agaricus sp.
Web: The Bridgeman Art Library

d'Espagnat, George. French. 1870-1950

Title: The Old Mushroom Gatherer.
Location: Unknown

de Pisis, Filippo (Luigi Filippo Tibertelli). Italian, 1896-1956

— A —
Title: Still life with fungi
Medium: Oil on canvas, 68x45 cm.
Location: Archivo Pallazzeschi, Univ. of Florence, Italy
Mushroom description: Stylized mushrooms, probably boletes
Web: Archivio Palazzeschi
— B —
Title: Fungi with a print by Poussin (Funghi con stampa di Poussin)
Location: Museum Raccolta Della Ragione, Florence. 1927
Mushroom description: Four boletes. maybe Boletus edulis
Web: Scala Archives
— C —
Title: Still life with mushrooms, chestnuts and glasses (Natura morta con funghi, castagne e bicchieri)
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Stylized mushrooms
Reference: Gabrius website
— D —
Title: Still life with mushrooms (Natura morta con funghi)
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Stylized mushrooms
Reference: Gabrius website

Dix, Otto. German. Gera 1891 – Singen, near Constance 1969

— A —
Title: Lot and his daughter (Lot und seine Töchter) 1939
Medium: Mixed media on hard plate
Location: Private property, Aachen
Mushroom description: Polypores (cf. Trametes sp.) on a big Fagus tree at the right side
Note: The picture is famous for it prophetically shows Dresden burning in the background, which took place six years later
Reference: Löffler.F. Otto Dix. Fig. 130. Dresden 1960.
— B —
Title: Mushroom still life (Pilzstilleben) 1946
Medium : Oil on wood
Location : Private property
Mushroom description: Several species of fungi, in particular Boletus edulis, Agaricus arvensis, Cantharellus cibarius, Craterellus cornucopioides, Lactarius deterrimus, Ramaria aurea, Russula sp. and Sparassis crispa, depicted quite naturalistically
Reference: Flyer. Kunstschau Bayer. Munich. 2001.
Reference: Gabrius website
— C —
Title: Mushrooms (Pilze)
Mushroom description: Stylized boletes and chanterelles
Web: Gabrius Website
— D —
Title: Two Tree Stumps attacked by Fungi (Zwei Baumstuempfe von Pilzen befallen) 1935
Medium: Pen in sepia over silver stick on paper with chalk basis.
Location: Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden, Germany
Mushroom description: two stumps covered by polypores (cf. Trametes?)
Reference: Reproduced in a catalogue, Dresden, 1991
Note: Original seen by H. Kreisel in 2006 in Dresden.

Dohlmann, Augusta. Danish. 1847-1914

Title: Mushroom still life (Maleri svampe) 1905
Location: Unknown.
Mushroom description: Group of Amanita muscaria and several other agarics, including Stropharia caerulea.
Web: C4antik

Dunoyer de Segonzac, A. French. 1884 – 1974

Title: Vegetables and Mushrooms (Les legumes et les champignons) 1935
Medium: Etching
Location: National Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Escher, Maurits C. Dutch. 1898-1972

Title: Emblemata (#177) 1931
Motto: Dissolutionis ex humore speciose praefresco
Epigram: Wasdom van geheimenis, nabloei van de nacht, broos is mijn verrijzenis, een verwezen pracht. (Secret growth, legacy of the night, spongily I rise, a serene beauty.)
Location: Offered by Walker Gallery, New York
Mushroom description: Amanita muscaria
Web: Walker Fine Art

Felixmüller, Conrad. German 1897-1977

Title: Still life with mushrooms
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: One each, Amanita muscaria, Macrolepiota procera, Boletus edulis

Folkard, Charles. British. 1878-1963

Title: The Witch’s Garden
Medium: Watercolor, 22.9x17.8 cm.
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Group of stylized campanulate mushrooms
Web: The Bridgeman Art Library

Gallard, Pierre Victor. Swiss. Geneva, 1822 - Paris, 1892

Title: Forest understory with red mushrooms (Sous Bois Aux Champignons Rouge)
Location: Muse´d’Orsay, Paris
Reference: Joconde website

Galle, Emile. French. 1846-1904

Title: The Coprinus (Les Coprins)
Medium: Blown glass. Mushroom lamp. 83cm tall, in glowing orange
Location: Kitazawa Musuem of Art, Suwa, Japan
Web: Kitazawa Museum of Art

Gaugin, Paul. French. Paris 1848 –Atuona, Marchesas Islands 1903

Title: The Removed Headdress. ca. 1897
Location: Phillips Collection, Washington DC
Mushroom description: Two funnel shaped agarics with ring, gray

Generaliç, Ivan. Croat. 1914-1954

Title: Landscape
Medium: Glass painting
Mushroom description: Three small capped mushrooms on forest floor
Reference: Lexicon der Kunst. Freiburg. 1985

Gerrard, Kathleen. British. 1894-1970

Title: Still Life with Yellow Fungus. C. 1936-39
Medium: Oil on canvas support, 405 x 510 mm.
Location: Tate Gallery, London. (T06486)

Ghilionda-Lamouzele, Yvonne. Probably mid 19th -mid 20th century

Title: Les champignons
Medium: Oil on canvas, 35 x 24 cm.
Location: Musée des Augustines, Toulouse, France. (Inventory No. 8616)
Mushroom description: Group of four boletes, perhaps B. edulis

Graag, Julie de. Dutch. 1877-1924

Title: October. 1917
Medium: Woodcut print
Location: Drents Museum, Assen, The Netherlands

Green, Elizabeth Shippen. American. 1871-1954.

Title: The Little Gardener. 1902
Location: Private collection
Mushroom description: Group of white gilled campanulate agarics
Web: The Bridgeman Art Library

Gulácsy, Lajos. Hungarian. Budapest 1882-1932

— A —
Title: The Opium Smoker's Dream. 1913-18
Medium: Oil on canvas, 160 x 90 cm.
Location: Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs, Hungary
Mushroom description: Foreground with a number of mushrooms shaped like Coprinus, Panaeolus and Agaricus.
Web: Bridgeman Art Library and Fine Arts in Hungary

Gisenbert, K (given names?). German? 19th -20th Century?

Title: The Mushrooms Pickers
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Mushrooms visible on the ground but not identifiable on website picture
Reference: Gabrius website

Golynski, Vassili. Russian. 19th century?

Title: Mushroom Gatherers Resting
Location: Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
Mushroom description: Two mushroom baskets and loose mushrooms on the ground, (possibly) boletes. A group seated and lying in a little cleared space in the forest and listening, rather incredulously, to the eager assertions of the youngest that she knows where a still more fruitful harvest of fungi may be found.
Web: Paul V. Galvin Library

Hartenkampf, Kempf Von. Austrian. Vienna 1871-1964

Title: A Mushroom
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: A somewhat stylized campanulate mushroom
Reference: Gabrius website

Hem, Louise de. Belgian. 1866-1922

Title: Still life with mushrooms (Nature morte aux champignons)
Location: Musée de Beaux-Artes, Lille, France
Reference: Joconde website

Hodgkin, Eliot. British. 1905-

— A —
Title: Aubergines (egg plant), peppers and mushrooms
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Two Agaricus bisporus
Reference: Gabrius website
— B —
Title: Funghi No. 1
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Collection of Boletus edulis
Reference: Gabrius website
— C —
Title: Still Life with Eggs, Tomatoes and Mushrooms. c. 1929
Medium: 64x53 cm.
Location: Private collection
Mushroom description: Six caps of Agaricus (probably bisporus)
Web: The Bridgeman Art Library

Hook, James C. British. 1819-1907

Title: The Mushroom Gatherers. Boy picking mushrooms on a cliff by the seashore.
Medium: Oil on panel, 18.6 x 24.8 cm.
Location: Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums Fine Art Collection

Hornel, Edward A. Scottish, born in Australia. 1864-1933

Title: Girls Gathering Mushrooms. 1904
Medium: Oil on panel, 46.3x60.3 cm.
Location: London, private collection
Mushroom description: Two girls gathering somewhat indistinct mushrooms, probably Agaricus campestris.
Reference: Gabrius website
Web: Art Prints on Demand

Hosmer, Harriet G. American 1830-1908

Title: Puck. Ca. 1856
Medium: Sculpture in marble, 31 inches high
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Puck sitting on a stylized mushroom with several “baby” mushrooms
Note: This was Hosmer's most popular piece. Hosmer produced several copies of this model and its financial success allowed Hosmer to pursue sculpture as a career
Web: Chrysler Museum of Art

Jacobs, Helen. British. 1888-1970

Title: The Fairy Market
Medium: Pen and ink, 21.6x30 cm.
Location: Private collection
Mushroom description: Two groups of stylized mushrooms on the ground
Web: The Bridgeman Art Library

Kahlo, Frida. Mexican. Coyacan 1907- Coyacan 1954

— A —
Title: Fruits of the earth (Frutos de la tierra) 1938
Medium: Oil on masonite
Location: Collection of Banco Nacional, Mexico City
Mushroom description: Several mushrooms in a basket of fruit (Lactarius, Boletus, Ramaria, others)
Reference: Ebert-Schifferer. Geschichte des Stillebens. Munich. 1998
Web: My Studios
— B —
Title: Still life. 1947
Medium: Oil on copper, 62 cm. diameter
Location: Frida Kahlo Museum, Mexico City
Mushroom description: Craterellus tubaeformis, piece of upside down agaric cap, Ramaria

Kokoschka, Oskar. Austrian. Pöchlarn 1885 –Villeneuve, Switzerland 1980

Title: Basket with mushrooms
Location: Galerie Schlichtenmeier, Grafenau
Mushroom description: Several stylized mushrooms
Reference: Exhibition catalog. Galerie Schlichtenmeier. 1996
Note: The artist painted several other similar watercolors by the same title
Reference: Gabrius website

Kuindzi, Archip Ivanovitch (Kuinji, Kuindshi) Russian, Mariupol 1841-?St. Petersburg 1910

Title: Birch grove. 1879
Location: Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow
Mushroom description: Hypholoma sublateritium (blurry) on tree stump
Reference: The Tretyakow Gallery. Moscow. 1983

Leibl, Wilhelm. German. Cologne1844 – Würzburg 1900

Title: Death-head butterfly and mushrooms on a white cloth ("Totenkopfschmetterling mit Pilz auf weissem Tuch") 1868
Location: Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle. (Inv. 1003)
Mushroom description: The mushroom is Russula olivacea, the butterfly Acherontia atropos

Liebermann, Max. German. Berlin 1847-1935

Title: Self portrait with kitchen still life (Selbsportrát mit Küchenstilleben)
Location: Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Gelsekirchen, Germany (inventory # Ib 62/3);
Mushroom description: Agaricus bisporus between vegetables
Reference: Brauner. Max Liebermann. Berlin. 1986

Lucchesi, Giorgio. Italian. Lucca 1855-1941

Title: Still life with fungi (Natura morta con funghi)
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Group of Boletus edulis and one Amanita caesarea
Web: Gabrius Website

Maidanjuk, Osip. Ukrainian, worked in Sweden. 1886-c. 1965

Title: Mushrooms. (Svamp.) 1944
Medium: 41.5x45 cm.
Location: Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Stockholm)
Mushroom description: Two Agaricus sp., one mature, one in button stage
Note: Described by Eva-Lena Bengtsson, Curator, Royal Academy of Fine Arts. (Stockholm)

Malacrea, Francesco. Italian Trieste 1813-1886

Title: Still life with fish. 1859.
Medium: Oil, ca. 40 x 60 cm.
Location: Museo Civico Revoltella, Trieste, Italy
Mushroom description: Four big fish, four fully opened Amanita caesarea, eggplant and lettuce
Web: The Bridgeman Art Library

Max, Gabriel von. Czech/German. 1840-1915

Title: Girl peeling mushrooms (Pilze schälendes Mädchen) 1896
Medium: Oil
Location: Lenbach-Haus, Munich
Note: Seen in 1897 by M. Schaeur. (Not on exhibit in 2000)

Melida, Enrique. Spanish. 1834-1892

Title: Mushroom study (Etude des champignons)
Medium: Oil on canvas, 32 x 36 cm.
Location: Musée Bonnat, Bayonne, France
Mushroom description: Group of Boletus edulis
Web: http://www.photo.rmn.fr/us/f_recherche.html

Metzinger, Jean. French. Nantes 1883-Paris 1956.

— A —
Title: Still life of mushrooms
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Collection of Agaricus bisporus
Web: Gabrius Website
— B —
Title: Les champignons no. I
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Collection of Agaricus bisporus
Web: Gabrius Website

Modersohn-Becker, Paula. German.Dresden 1876-Worpswede 1907

— A —
Title: Peasant’s house with apple tree and mushrooms (Bauernkate with Apfelbaum und Pilz)
Medium: charcoal
Location: Museum Otto Modersohn
Mushroom description: not available
Reference: Murken-Altrogge, Christa. Paula Modersohn-Becker: Leben und Werk. Cologne, Germany: Dumont Buchverlag. 1980.
— B —
Title: Blind women in forest (Blinde Frauen im Walde) Ca. 1900
Medium: Engraving
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Several capped mushrooms in forest floor
Reference: Murken-Altrogge, Christa. Paula Modersohn-Becker, Leben und Werk. Cologne, Germany: Dumont Buchverlag. 1980.

Monti, Cesare. Italian. Brescia 1891-Bellano 1959

Title: The mushrooms (I funghi)
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: About eight stylized mushrooms, perhaps both Amanita caesarea and Boletus edulis
Reference: Gabrius website

Mossa, Gustav Adolf. French. 1883-1971

Title: Hamadryade. 1904
Medium: Watercolor and lead pencil on gray board, 32 x 25 cm.
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Figure of a nymph holding a basket with several Amanita muscaria
Reference: Mossa, Gustav Adolf. L’Oeuvre Symboliste 1903-1918. Catalogue from the Paris-Musés, 1992.

Mucha, Alfons. Czech. Ivanike, Moravia 1850 – Prague 1939

Title: Slavia. 1980
Location: National Gallery, Prague
Mushroom description: Brown, stocky capped mushrooms on the ground
Reference: Herder. Grosse Enzyklopedie der Malerei. Freiburg, Germany. 1978.

Nash, Paul. British. 1889-1946

Note: Geoffrey Ainsworth in the History of Mycology, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1976 edition, mentions: “... the emotive use of agarics by Paul Nash in the twentieth (century).”

Nicholson, William. British. Denham 1872–London 1949.

— A —
Title: Mushrooms. 1940
Medium: Oil on canvas board support, 34.9 x 45.1 cm.
Location: Tate Gallery, London, England
Mushroom description: Plate of Agaricus campestris, some mature
Web: Tate Online
— B —
Mushrooms
Medium: Oil on canvas, 48.2x55.9
Location: Nottingham City Museums and Galleries, UK
Mushroom description: Group of five Agaricus campestris in various stages
Web: The Bridgeman Art Library

Pissarro, Camille. French. 1830-1903.

Title: Women Gathering Mushrooms
Medium: Woodcut from Travaux des Champs, engraved by Lucien Pissarro, published London, 1893
Location: Private collection
Mushroom description: Three women gathering field mushrooms (not seen)
Web: The Bridgeman Art Library

Plastow, Arkadi Alexandrovitch. Russian. 1893-1972

Title: In Summer. (Letom.) 1953/54
Medium: Oil
Location: Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Mushroom description: Basket with small capped mushrooms, including Lactarius sp.
Note: Seen by HK in 1980

Redpath, Anne. British. Galashiels 1895-Edinburgh 1965

— A —
Title: Mushrooms and aubergines
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Eight cut caps, Agaricus bisporus
Reference: Gabrius website
— B —
Title: Green bananas
Medium: Watercolor, 54x61 cm.
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Bowl of fruit. One Agaricus bisporus
Web: The Bridgeman Art Library and The Bridgeman Art Library

Ribot, Théodule. French. Saint-Nicolas-d'Attez 1823-Colombes 1891

Title: A still life. Ca. 1865
Medium: Oil
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Mushroom description: Agaricus bisporus next to vegetables, chicken, bottle
Reference: Genthon. Die grosse Zeit der neuen französische Malereien. Budapest. 1964, 1975.

Rose-Grabow, Martha. German. 1860-?

Title: Mushrooms in forest floor (Pilze an Waldboden)
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Russulas, chanterelles, red bolete, others
Web: Glabrius website

Salietti, Alberto. Italian. Ravenna 1892-Chiavari 1961

— A —
Title: Forest mushrooms (Funghi di bosco)
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Freshly picked Boletus edulis
Reference: Gabrius website
— B —
Title: Still life with porcini mushrooms (Natura morta con funghi porcini)
Location: Unknown
Musrhoom description: Boletus edulis on and by a plate
Reference: Gabrius website

Schlesinger, Felix. German. Hamburg 1833-1910

Title: The Mushroom Gatherers
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Boy holding a basket of unidentified mushrooms, probably Boletus edulis
Web: Art Renewal Center

Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl. German. Rottluf 1894-Berlin 1976

— A —
Title: Tree mushrooms (Baumschämme) 1943
Medium: Watercolor and ink
Location: Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stifftung, Berlin
Mushroom description: Geophyllum sepiarium
— B —
Title: Still life with mushrooms
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Stylized boletes
Reference: Gabrius website

Scholderer, Otto. German. 1834-1902

Title: Still life with blue vase and mushrooms (Stilleben mit blauer Vase un Pilzen) 1890-92
Location: Städelsches Kunstinsitut, Frankfurt
Mushroom description: Brown forms of Agaricus bisporus
Reference: Stadel Kunstinstitut postcard
Web: Artothek

Segantini, Giovanni. Italian. Arco 1858-Schafberg, Switz.1899

Title: Funghi (Still life) 1886
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Museum Segantini, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Mushroom description: Basket of boletes
Web: Funghi

Shishkin, Ivan Ivanovitch (Schischkin)]. Russian. 1832-1898

— A —
Title: A Walk in the Forest. 1869
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Mushroom description: Polypores on dead birch trunk
Web: Olga's Gallery
— B —
Title: Gathering Mushrooms. 1870
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Note: Four women and a boy with baskets on clearing by a stream. No mushrooms visible
Web: Olga's Gallery
— C —
Title: Wind-Fallen Trees (The Woods near Vologda) 1888
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine
Mushroom description: Group of cap mushrooms on forest floor.
Web: Olga's Gallery
— D —
Title: Tree foliage (Baumschlag) 1867
Location: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Mushroom description: Amanita muscaria in the forest
Reference: Russian Painting. Aurora Publ.: St. Petersburg
— E —
Title: Fly agaric. Study. 1878-79
Location: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Mushroom description: Amanita muscaria
Reference: Schuvalova, I. Shishkin (Great Painters Series). Leningrad. 1983.
— F —
Title: Cleared forest. After 1880
Location: St. Petersburg Russian Museum
Mushroom description: Polypores on a tree trunk
Reference: Schuvalova, I. Shishkin (Great Painters Series). Leningrad 1983.
— G —
Title: Decayed tree trunk overgrown with moss. Study. 1890
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Mushroom description: Cap mushrooms on fallen tree trunk
Reference: Schuvalova, I. Shishkin (Great Painters Series). Leningrad 1983.

Solomatkin, Leonid. Russian. 1837 – 1883

Title: The Mushroom Gatherers. 1873
Medium: Oil on canvas, 17 3/4" x 13 3/4"
Location: Sold to Unknown buyer by the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Mushroom description: Couple on a wooded path. Man with basket full of boletes (possibly), woman holding a mushroom
Web: Art4Sale

Spanyi, Bela Adalbert. Hungarian. 1852-1914

Title: Collecting mushrooms in a wood
Note: Mushrooms not visible
Reference: Gabrius website

Sutherland, Jane. American born, lived in Australia. 1853-1928

Title: The Mushroom Gatherers. Ca. 1895
Medium: Oil on canvas, 41.3 x 99.0 cm.
Location: National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Note: Two women in a field, one with a basket, the other apparently with mushrooms in apron. The mushrooms are not visible
Web: Artist's Footsteps

Tarrant, Winifred M. British. 1888-1959

Title: A Fairy Band
Medium: Watercolor, 49.2 x 61.8 cm.
Location: Collection, Averil and Barry Miles
Mushroom description: A fairy leading a band standing on a ringless Amanita muscaria
Reference: Woods, C. Fairies in Victorian Art. Woodbridge, U.K.: Antique Coll. Club. 2000.

Thurn und Taxis, Margarete von. German. d. 1955

Medium: Watercolor. ca. 1900
Location: Schlossmuseum Thurn und Taxis, Regensburg, Germany
Mushroom description: Amanita muscaria and other mushrooms
Note: Seen by A. Breinsky

Thurner Gabriel. French. 1840-1907

Title: Still life of mushrooms (Champignons, Nature Morte)
Location: Musée des beaux-arts, Rouen, France
Reference: Joconde website
Web: Website

Tosi, Arturo. Italian. 1871-1956

Title: Still life
Mushroom description: Group of boletes, perhaps Boletus pinophilus.
Reference: Scala website

Turletti, Celestino. Italian. 1845-1902

Title: Little mushroom vendor (Piccolo venditore di funghi)
Mushroom description: Boy with basket by the door of a house
Reference: Gabrius website

Vastagh, György. Hungarian. 1834-1922

Title: Mushroom Huntress from Siebenburg (Siebenbürgische Schämmesucherin)
Medium. Oil. Also a wood carving by H. A. Emil Ostade
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Woman with two baskets full of mushrooms and cap mushrooms on the ground
Reference: Print in H. Kreisel’s collection

Voeroes, Geza. Hungarian? 20th Century?

Title: Still life with seafood and mushrooms
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Four Agaricus cf. campestris.
Reference: Gabrius website

Walker, Frederick. British. 1840-1875

Title: The Mushroom Gatherer
Location: Unknown
Reference: Cited in Website

Waterhouse, John William, British. 1840-1917

Title: Echo and Narcissus. 1903
Medium: Painting
Location: Winkler Art Gallery, Liverpool
Mushroom description: Mushrooms under a tree trunk
Note: Illustrated postcard seen by B. Oberwinkler

Wouters, Rik. Belgian. 1882-1916

Title: Still life with mushoroms and flowers (Stilleven met paddenstoelen en bloemen)
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Stylized mushrooms in a pile
Reference: Gabrius website

Wüsten, Johannes. German, 1896-1943

— A —
Title: Rübezahl (a figure in German mythology). 1931
Medium: Print
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Phallus impudicus, Amanita muscaria, polypores
— B —
Title: Mushrooms II. (Pilze II.) 1931
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Phallus impudicus
Reference: Insel-Bucherei, No. 979. Leipzig.1973.
— C —
Title: Summertime II. (Sommerzeit II)
Medium: Watercolor
Location: Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Mushroom description: Clump of cap mushrooms in foreground

Walker, Frederick. British, 1840-1875

Title: The Mushroom Gatherer
Location: Unknown

Mushroom Art Registry: 1850-1950

Mushroom Art Registry:
1850-1950