# Factory--Study for "Ironworkers, Noontime"/Verso: Still Life with Orange

**Thomas Anshutz** (American, 1851–1912)  
(1880)  
Oil on paperboard  
8 1/2 x 12 7/8 in. (21.4 x 32.7 cm)

Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 66.55.A-B. [The museum's record](https://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm:hmsg_66.55.A-B).

## 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](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/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.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- The artist was 29
- Real size: about 8½ × 13 in (21 × 33 cm). The 11 × 14 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Movement: [Realism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/realism)
- Colour: black
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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