Hindu Merchants
Object Details
- Gallery Label
- Edwin Lord Weeks traveled to India in 1883, following many years of travel throughout North Africa. A photographer as well as a painter, he wrote in his letters that he wandered the streets by day and developed his photographs at night. He reveled in the local culture, paying particular attention to the details of dress and customs. He was less interested in royalty than in the everyday lives of people he encountered in the streets. Weeks relied on his photographs to supply the rich details of Indian architecture: elaborately carved cornices and arches filled with polychromed geometric and floral designs speak to the visual sophistication of Indian civilization. The lasting impact of his paintings was to bring alive a culture with which most of his American patrons were unfamiliar.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Emily Tuckerman
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Date
- ca. 1885
- Object number
- 1924.7.1
- Artist
- Edwin Lord Weeks, born Boston, MA 1849-died Paris, France 1903
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 28 3/8 x 22 7/8 in. (72.2 x 58.0 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2nd Floor, East Wing
- Topic
- Figure group\male
- Animal\dog
- Animal\horse
- Occupation\vendor
- Hindu
- Architecture Exterior\commercial\market
- Record ID
- saam_1924.7.1
