Miner, Mason, Carpenter, Plowman, Excavator, Cobbler

late 19th or early 20th century

Frederick Burr Opper American, 1857-1937

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About the Artwork

Title Miner, Mason, Carpenter, Plowman, Excavator, Cobbler

Artwork Date late 19th or early 20th century

Artist Frederick Burr Opper

Life Dates 1857-1937

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Pen and black ink on heavy white wove paper

Dimensions Sheet: 8 × 11 1/4 inches (20.3 × 28.6 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F82.113

Markings

Signed Signed, in black ink, lower right: F. Opper

Inscriptions Inscribed, in blue pencil, between top and bottom horizontal rows, [horizontal line with arrows pointing out at each end] Inscribed, just left of center: (981) Inscribed, in pencil, in lower right of top left box: 1 Inscribed, in lower right of top center box: 2 Inscribed, at lower center of top right box: 3 Inscribed, lower left: Nov 9th | [seperate blocks] 7 1/2 inches wide Inscribed, lower right along right edge: 117/8-2-Nov 8th Swi/ ?! Inscribed, verso, upper left, 0K/5OO 5O4 [encircled] Inscribed, lower left: 504 [encircled]

Provenance

Charles Sessler (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA). Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg

1982-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Frederick Burr Opper, Miner, Mason, Carpenter, Plowman, Excavator, Cobbler, late 19th or early 20th century, pen and black ink on heavy white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg, F82.113.