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Study for "Negro Boy Dancing:" The Boy, (painting)
Object Details
- Notes
- Kelly, Franklin, "American paintings of the nineteenth century; part 1," Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1996.
- National Gallery of Art, 1988, 1990.
- "American Art from Alumni Collections," New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1968.
- Perry, Claire, "Young America: Childhood in 19th-Century Art and Culture," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006, pg. 7.
- Kelly, Franklin, "American paintings of the nineteenth century; part 1," Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1996, pg. 171.
- Perry, Claire, "Young America: Childhood in 19th-Century Art and Culture," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006, pg. 7.
- "American Art from Alumni Collections," New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1968.
- The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
- Summary
- A full-length standing figure of a boy dancing.
- Culture
- African American
- Data Source
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- Date
- Ca. 1877
- Control number
- IAP 80000098
- painter
- Eakins, Thomas 1844-1916
- Type
- Paintings
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Owner/Location
- National Gallery of Art Fourth Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W Washington District of Columbia 20565 Accession Number: 1985.64.15
- Title
- Negro Boy Dancing (Sketch For), (painting)
- Topic
- Figure male--Full length
- Figure male--Child
- Ethnic
- Recreation--Dancing
- Study
- Record ID
- siris_ari_173439
- Usage
- Usage conditions apply