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Photography by Dwight Primiano
Boy Eating Berries
Photography by Dwight Primiano

Boy Eating Berries

Artist (1853 - 1924)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on paperboard
Dimensions16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2008.5
Accession number 2008.5
On View
On view
ProvenanceRichard and Roger Marx, Valley Stream, NY; (Alexander Gallery, New York, NY); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2008
Label TextThese amusing, if not strange, portraits depict boys doing activities that were common, yet sometimes scandalous. What makes them unique is they are painted on painter’s palettes instead of on traditional material like canvas. Using the palette’s design for his portraits, Joseph Decker transformed the board’s thumb-hole into the boy’s mouth.

Estos divertidos -aunque extraños- retratos, representan a niños realizando actividades que, aunque comunes, podían resultar escandalosas. Lo que las hace únicas es que están pintadas sobre una paleta de pintor, en lugar de un material tradicional como el lienzo. Al usar el diseño de la paleta para sus retratos, Joseph Decker transformó el agujero del pulgar de la paleta en la boca del niño.

Photography by Dwight Primiano
Joseph Decker
n.d.
Photography by Dwight Primiano
Joseph Decker
n.d.
Photography by Dwight Primiano
Joseph Decker
1884 or 1885
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