Thomas Anshutz, 1879 - The Way They Live - fine art print

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What does the The Metropolitan Museum of Art state about the work of art from the painter Thomas Anshutz? (© - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Born in Kentucky and raised in West Virginia, Thomas Anshutz moved with his family to Brooklyn in 1871. During that turbulent, post-Civil War decade, a number of artists painted images of African American life. Here, Anshutz portrays a woman and two children caring for their arid vegetable garden. The mountain setting suggests the painting may have been based on a scene the artist observed in his travels around Wheeling, West Virginia. The aestheticized lushness of the regional flora is in stark contrast to the impoverished living conditions and grim demeanor of the woman, suggesting that little had changed for emancipated blacks in Reconstruction-era America. The artist’s original title, The Way They Live, underlines the distance between the presumed white middle-class viewer and the laboring subject. The painting was later referred to with more generic titles, The Cabbage Patch or Way Down South.

Interesting facts about the painting by named Thomas Anshutz

"The Way They Live" was by the male American artist Thomas Anshutz. The original has the size: 24 x 17 in (61 x 43,2 cm) and was painted with oil on canvas. Today, the artpiece is included in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1940 (licensed: public domain). Additionally, the work of art has the creditline: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1940. The alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with a ratio of 1 : 1.4, meaning that the length is 29% shorter than the width.

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