Bill Scott’s Autumn Still Life (2012) is currently on view in Two Centuries of American Still-Life Paintings: The Frank and Michelle Hevrdejs Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. This exhibition explores nearly 200 years of paintings in the genre, from the realism of the 18th century to Modernism, Pop art and beyond. Scott’s painting demonstrates the expansion of the still life genre into brilliant color abstraction. The exhibition will be on view until April 9, 2017. Then it wil travel to the Memphis Brooks Museum in Memphis, April 20 - July 30, 2017. The exhibition's final destination will be at the Tacoma Museum of Art from September 2, 2017 - January 7, 2018.

Photo credit: Gloria Groom, Chair of European Painting and Sculpture and David and Mary Winton Green Curator, The Art Institute of Chicago.