# Checker Players, in Thomas Anshutz

Thomas Anshutz painted this in about 1895, aged 44. It is now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.

From the museum's label:

> Two boys sit engrossed in a game of checkers, each focusing intently on his next move. The dark, featureless interior draws our attention to the players' rigid poses.

_Text from the Smithsonian American Art Museum._

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1895
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 16 1/8 x 20 1/8 in. (40.8 x 51.0 cm.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1967.136.4
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Thomas Anshutz](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/thomas-anshutz), American, 1851–1912

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.

3 works in the collection.

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