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Photography by Dwight Primiano
His First Business Venture
Photography by Dwight Primiano

His First Business Venture

Artist (1823 - 1903)
Date1884
MediumWatercolor and gouache on paper
Dimensions28 x 14 in. (71.1 x 35.6 cm)
Framed: 36 7/8 x 23 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. (93.7 x 59.1 x 5.7 cm)
ClassificationsWatercolor
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2007.164
Accession number 2007.164
On View
Not on view
ProvenancePaul Worman, New York, NY; John Driscoll, New York, NY; to (Babcock Galleries, New York, NY); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2007
Label TextDespite the boy’s tattered hat and worn shoes, Thomas Waterman Wood presented this street merchant as a cleaned up and resourceful young man. Leaning against a plaster wall with brick exposed, the boy counts on his fingers to calculate either the day’s proceeds or perhaps what he will charge for the next sale. Wood painted this when he lived and worked in New York City, where he paid a young boy one dollar to pose for the picture.

A pesar de lo raído del sombrero del niño, y lo desgastado de sus zapatos, Thomas Waterman Wood nos presenta a este vendedor ambulante como un joven ingenioso y bien aseado. El niño, quien está recostado de una pared de ladrillo expuesto cubierta con yeso, cuenta con los dedos quizás las ganancias del día, o quizás cuánto cobrará en su próxima venta. Wood pintó este cuadro cuando vivía y trabajaba en la ciudad de Nueva York, en donde le pagó un dólar a un niño para que posara para esta pintura.
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