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Two original watercolor paintings in a realist style that provide an original twist on conventional still lifes with the incorporation of affectionate portrayals of mice. Mice on Library Books shows a desk with a candlestick, a row of books, and an open book upon which the reader has left a pair of glasses. One mouse rests its paws upon the lens, and looks through it as if reading. Another mouse pokes its head from between two of the other books. The scene is filled with subtle observed details such as half-burned wooden matchsticks on the candlestick. Romeo and Juliet is the gently humorous title given to a scene of two mice meeting where thatch overhangs a sunlit exterior wall. One peeks out from the thatch, almost touching noses with the other, which has climbed up a heavy rope hanging from a metal ring.

Henry Grant Plumb was a painter known for his figures and genre subjects. Born in Sherburne, New York, he studied art with his father, Gerome Plumb, in Los Angeles and in Paris, where he also attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Plumb completed additional studies at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He settled in New York and taught at the art school at Cooper Union from 1882-1916. During that period he exhibited regularly at such institutions as the National Academy of Design, Brooklyn Art Association, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Society of Independent Artists and the Boston Art Club. He also participated in the Paris Salon of 1878 and the Paris Exposition of 1889, winning a prize. Plumb was a member of the Salmagundi Club, Artist's Fund Society; and American Federation of Arts.

References:

Falk, Peter Hastings, ed. Who Was Who in American Art. Madison, Connecticut: Sound View Press, 1985. p. 488.

Woodburn, Shirley. “Henry Grant Plumb.” AskArt.com. 2000-2006. http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?artist=17822 (30 June 2006).