YOUNG CONSTRUCTORS

Artist JAMES TAYLOR HARWOOD (1860 - 1940)

Date1911

CountryUtah, USA

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions81.9 x 101.6 cm (32 1/4 x 40") (Image)
Frame: 103.2 x 122.6 cm (40 5/8 x 48 1/4")

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineBrigham Young University Museum of Art.

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Object number820038047

DescriptionThe image is an interior scene in which two youthful male figures, one standing behind a table and one to the left of the table perched on a stool, are working on boyhood inventions. The seated figure is whittling and has a whirligig-like contraption on the floor next to him. The standing figure works on a steam engine that powers a crane. Light comes in from two windows, draped with a shear fabric, behind the standing figure. The floor has a patterned carpet, a wooden chair appears at the far right, and a drop front desk sits in the shadow in the right corner of the room.

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