"Untitled (Cracked Watermelon)," Charles Ethan Porter, c. 1880.

A black American artist, Porter's choice of watermelon seems defiant here. Stereotypically associated with black people then (and now), he depicts one in loving detail and elevates a stereotype to art. There's probably some significance to how it looks dropped and broken, as well.

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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