Slate, Pipe, Tobacco, and Box of Matches

c. 1890/1900

Peter McCallion

Associated Names
Peter McCallion

Painter, American, active 1890 - 1900

This painting depicts a black slate chalkboard with a wooden frame hanging from a nail on a wooden wall. Hanging from the same nail is also a white pipe and two boxes. The chalkboard is vertical, and its wooden frame has the words "CHEW," "TIGER," and "BRIGHT * SWEET" printed on it. The slate has words and drawings in white chalk on it, including a tic-tac-toe game, a simple tiger illustration with a label "A TIGER," two stick figures, three multiplication problems, and text reading "DEZE IZ DE KIND ME DAD UZEZ DERE BULLY," with the Zs standing in for a backwards S. Of the two hanging boxes, one is dark blue with black text, including the label "Cut Plug," and the other is white with teal designs, and is tied together with several long matches. The wooden wall behind the objects is a dark gray brown.

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 65


Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly (Richard York Gallery, New York).[1] (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York); purchased 1989 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] A label with the gallery's name is on the back of the painting.

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Exhibition History

1988

  • Variations on a Theme: Still Life Painting in America, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1988, no. 40.

2014

  • Peindre l'Amérique: Les artistes du Nouveau Monde, 1830-1900, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, 27 July - 26 October 2014.

Bibliography

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 308, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q46631770

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