# Picking Cotton

- By: William Gilbert Gaul (American, 1855 - 1919)
- Date: c. 1890
- Medium: oil on academy board
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 33.66 × 46.36 cm (13 1/4 × 18 1/4 in.) ; framed: 40.64 × 50.8 × 5.08 cm (16 × 20 × 2 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Josephine Boardman Crane, 1957)
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.177052.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/nga/06c79e5b-bc00-4fd7-b0ef-98ea3d8fe988/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)