Chrysler Museum of Art 245 West Olney Road (at Mowbray Arch) Norfolk Virginia 23510-1587 Accession Number: 89.92
Date:
1845
Notes:
Hagood, Martha N., and Jefferson C. Harrison, "American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings," Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum of Art, 2005, pg. 56.
Summary:
Interior scene of a woodworking shop, with a middle-aged carpenter seated on a wooden chair, his body turned in profile to the left as he tips back on the two rear chair legs and he stares intently at a carafe of wine resting on a box atop a windowsill. On the wall beside the window there is a poster advertising the temperance society meeting. The shop is empty except for his tool bench and an axe resting against a chopping block in the foreground.
