# Vignette: Man Crouching on a Scaffolding, in The American Gilded Age

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

From the museum's label:

> 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._

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## The work

- Date: 1899
- Medium: Brush and black washes, with graphite, on white watercolor paper
- Dimensions: 39.3 × 30.6 cm (15 1/2 × 12 1/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1957-58-13
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Walter Appleton Clark](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/walter-appleton-clark), American, 1876–1906

1 works in the collection.

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