Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
High, Jack, Game
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Thomas Le Clear (American painter, 1818-1882)
Location:
repository: Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine, United States) 2013.182
Location Note:
5600 Mayflower Hill; The Lunder Collection
GPS:
44.565-69.660833
Date:
ca. 1865 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Nineteenth century; Realist
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
16 in (height) x 20 in (width)
Subjects:
genre; Blacks in art; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865; Irish immigrants; labor; card games; African American
Description:
Le Clear’s painting presents two Irish newspaper boys and an African American whitewasher absorbed in a game of cards on a city street. The man’s mismatched Union army jacket and U.S. Marine Corps cap tell us that he is an escaped slave who worked for Union forces as a laborer. The boys are playing Seven Up, a game popular among plantation slaves, and the man’s watchful attitude suggests that he is teaching them how to play. (Source: Colby Museum of Art [website]; http://www.colby.edu /museum/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-CLEAR-CA-HJG-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

High, Jack, Game