This painting shows a woman seated on a wooden chair, facing the right with her head slightly tilted down. She is focused on the thin silver needles she holds in her hands. She has light skin and brown hair put up into a bun, and she wears a dark green long-sleeved top with a white collar, a long tan skirt, and black shoes with short heels. On the round table next to her, there is a bowl decorated with white and blue patterns. On the left, a tall brown surface is partially visible, with a vase of red, orange, and purple flowers on top of it. The room has pale-yellow walls, and there is an…
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Josephine Knitting

painter Edmund Charles Tarbell (American, 1862 - 1938)

1916

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 66.68 × 51.44 cm (26 1/4 × 20 1/4 in.) ; framed: 87.63 × 72.71 × 6.99 cm (34 1/2 × 28 5/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of George M. Oyster, Jr., 1924)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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