Icelandic Poppies 1908
Icelandic Poppies is an early work of Bell that received positive feed back for being a genre piece. The aspects of a new artist show through in this work with her reliance on her academic teachings of detailed lighting, triangular composition, and local color.
Apples: 46 square 1909
Here we see Bell be come more comfortable with her style with a more painterly approach, playing with color, and a more complex relationship of objects and space. The background and the foreground work together to create a view from inside to out side, not just a view out the window.
Out Side of Time and Space 