# Checkers up at the Farm

- By: John Rogers (born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904)
- Date: patented 1875
- Medium: painted plaster
- Classification: Sculpture
- Dimensions: 20 3/8 x 17 1/2 x 12 5/8 in. (51.9 x 44.6 x 32.2 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Rogers and Son
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=21138)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/573e6058cb0a207b9b985c628bcb8eb2.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

John Rogers created several groups that depicted people playing checkers. The first of these, Checker Players, was modeled in 1859 and received so much publicity that Rogers decided to devote all of his time to sculpting. Checkers up at the Farm was completed some fifteen years later and was Rogers’s second most popular piece, with a total sale of five thousand copies. The artist’s wife, Hattie, was the model for the farmer’s wife who watches the final moments of the game.