Factory--Study for "Ironworkers, Noontime"/Verso: Still Life with Orange(1880)
Thomas Anshutz painted this ((1880)), aged 29. It is now at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. More about this work
About this work
Thomas Anshutz painted this ((1880)), aged 29. It is now at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.
How it was made
- Oil paint
- Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.
Thomas Anshutz
American, 1851–1912 · Born in Newport, Kentucky; died in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.
Anshutz studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins, assisting his photographic and anatomical studies, and succeeded him as a teacher there after Eakins was forced out in 1886. His painting The Ironworkers’ Noontime of 1880 is one of the first American pictures of industrial labour. A gifted teacher for some thirty years, he counted Robert Henri, John Sloan and Charles Sheeler among his students.
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Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 66.55.A-B
- Credit
- Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
- Type
- Painting
- Department
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
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