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Boat Builder
John George Brownc. 1904
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Brown's preference for rural subjects in a time when the United States was undergoing rapid industrialization suggests nostalgia for the past. Indeed, Boat Builder, an image of an elderly craftsman working alone with hand tools in a tranquil setting replete with his sleeping dog, offered its contemporary audience a distinct alternative to mechanized factory production.
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- Title: Boat Builder
- Creator: John George Brown (American, 1831–1913)
- Date Created: c. 1904
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 98 x 120 x 11 cm (38 9/16 x 47 1/4 x 4 5/16 in.); Unframed: 80 x 101.6 cm (31 1/2 x 40 in.)
- Provenance: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.905
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Inscriptions: signed lower right: J.G. Brown N.A.
- Fun Fact: The object held in the sitter’s right hand is a drawing compass.
- Department: American Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: America, late 19th-early 20th Century
- Credit Line: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Collection: American - Painting
- Accession Number: 1972.905
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