Checkers Up At The Farm

Name/Title

Checkers Up At The Farm

Entry/Object ID

1993.03.04

Type of Sculpture

Free Standing

Artwork Details

Medium

Plaster

Made/Created

Artist

John Rogers

Date made

circa 1875

Place

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Sculpture

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Interpretative Labels

Label

Gift of Ian Berke, 1993.

Label

Polychrome (Painted plaster) sculpture depicting a group scene of two men seated playing checkers while a woman and child overlook. Men are seated at a larger make-shift barrel table. One man is seated on a smaller barrel while another is seated on a stool or crate.