This is a painting of a dockside scene with workers and cargo. The painting portrays a group of laborers taking a break, gathering around various goods and supplies near docked ships. The dock is bustling with items like a horse-drawn cart, baskets, and crates scattered around. The men wear simple trousers, shirts, and jackets in shades of brown, red, white, and light blue. Some wear hats and smoke pipes. Most have pale skin, although one man on the left appears to have dark brown skin. In the background are sailing vessels and a steamboat with smoke rising from a chimney against a pale-blue…
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The Longshoremen's Noon

painter John George Brown (American, born England, 1831 - 1913)

1879

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 84 × 127.3 cm (33 1/16 × 50 1/8 in.) ; framed: 109.9 × 153 × 9.5 cm (43 1/4 × 60 1/4 × 3 3/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1900)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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