# Vignette: Man Crouching on a Scaffolding

**Walter Appleton Clark** (American, 1876–1906)  
1899  
Brush and black washes, with graphite, on white watercolor paper  
39.3 × 30.6 cm (15 1/2 × 12 1/16 in.)

Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1957-58-13. [The museum's record](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/120112).

## About this work

Vignette showing a workman on his knees croushing on a scaffolding, a trowel and wooden bucket beside him.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

Walter Appleton Clark painted this in 1899, aged 23. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

### What you’re looking at

VIGNETTE: MAN CROUCHING ON A SCAFFOLDING

_Description from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

### How it was made

- **Watercolour.** Pigment in gum arabic, thinned with water and laid in transparent washes. Nothing white is painted: the light is the paper showing through.
- **Graphite.** Pencil. Graphite has been used for drawing since the 1500s; in 1795 Nicolas-Jacques Conté mixed it with clay, so its hardness could be graded.

### [Walter Appleton Clark](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/walter-appleton-clark)

American, 1876–1906

## Facts

- Type: Drawing
- The artist was 23
- Real size: about 15 × 12 in (39 × 31 cm). The 12 × 16 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Colour: white
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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