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“Tea at Smith,” watercolor, by Nava Grunfeld. The title of Grunfeld’s exhibit, “Lit From Within,” comes from her technique for painting still lifes, which involves a process of layering transparent ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. In terms of public reception in his day, he might have done better to paint even more still lifes. In terms of ...

In conversation with Observer, the artist opens up about the rituals, recipes and personal history behind her quietly radical paintings of food.