Studies of Figural Groups

1866

William Sidney Mount

Associated Names
William Sidney Mount

Artist, American, 1807 - 1868

This image features a sketch with multiple vignettes showing individuals in various interactions and settings. One vignette shows a man leaning against a building, another shows two men conversing outside a door, a woman walking, a man walking with a sack, two women seated and one writing, and a couple engaged in conversation. The sketches are drawn in pencil on plain paper, without color, with some surrounding notes and writing.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Norman Hirschl, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1947; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 7, no. 46.

Inscriptions

upper right in graphite: "Whats poor niggers going to do." / greys of all colors / in contrast / with brown / and black; left center in graphite: W. S. M.; lower left in graphite: W. S. M. / Dec. 3d a fine day; lower right in graphite: W. S. M. Dec-3-66 / White coat - light skirt / dark pants, brown bodice / Now Jim, cut me some / wood - or go without your / dinner

Wikidata ID

Q64639450

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