SKETCH FOR "AN ART REFORM"
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Sketch for “An Art Reform”

Frederick Stuart Church (American, 1842–1924)

1877

Medium
Pen and black ink, graphite on paper
Classification
Figures (representations)
Culture
USA
Museum
Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Credit line
Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
Rights
CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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About this work

Various figures scrambling and fighting, some are climbing ladders, others are using framed pieces of work to hit one another, two lay defeated on the ground.