In this painting, there is a man seated on the ground, one leg bent and one left stretched in front of him, facing the left. He sits in front of what looks like a stack of cotton bales, with fluffy white material peeking out of brown fabric. The man has peach-colored skin and a short brown beard, and his hair is obscured by a tan hat with a black ribbon. He wears a long-sleeved light blue shirt and light blue trousers, with a patch of red on his chest - perhaps a handkerchief in a breast pocket. His arms rest on his legs, and he has on dark brown boots. He has a white-and-silver pipe in his…
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A Longshoreman

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

n.d.

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 30.48 × 45.72 cm (12 × 18 in.) ; framed: 46.99 × 60.33 × 6.99 cm (18 1/2 × 23 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase by exchange: Mr. and Mrs. Ignatius Sargent)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed

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