This painting depicts a black slate chalkboard with a wooden frame hanging from a nail on a wooden wall. Hanging from the same nail is also a white pipe and two boxes. The chalkboard is vertical, and its wooden frame has the words "CHEW," "TIGER," and "BRIGHT * SWEET" printed on it. The slate has words and drawings in white chalk on it, including a tic-tac-toe game, a simple tiger illustration with a label "A TIGER," two stick figures, three multiplication problems, and text reading "DEZE IZ DE KIND ME DAD UZEZ DERE BULLY," with the Zs standing in for a backwards S. Of the two hanging boxes,…
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Slate, Pipe, Tobacco, and Box of Matches

painter Peter McCallion (American, active 1890 - 1900)

c. 1890/1900

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
framed: 24 3/4 x 17 3/4 in. (62.87 x 45.09 cm) ; unframed: 24 3/4 x 17 3/4 in. (62.87 x 45.09 cm)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase in honor of Edward J. Nygren, 1989)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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