Poor Artist's Cupboard
Charles Bird KingWW-1810-283172
1810·oil on wood·overall: 75.72 × 70.64 cm (29 13/16 × 27 13/16 in.)
framed: 94.62 × 89.85 × 5.72 cm (37 1/4 × 35 3/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1810
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- overall: 75.72 × 70.64 cm (29 13/16 × 27 13/16 in.) framed: 94.62 × 89.85 × 5.72 cm (37 1/4 × 35 3/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Artist
- Charles Bird King
Artist
Charles Bird King
Painting
Charles Bird King was an American painter of portraits and Native American subjects active in the early 19th century. Based in Washington, D.C., he produced oil paintings that documented tribal delegations visiting the nation's capital, creating a visual archive of indigenous peoples during a period of significant territorial displacement. His work combines formal portraiture conventions with ethnographic observation, rendering individual dignity within a historical moment of profound dispossession.
Full artist profile →More
More by Charles Bird King
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Charles Bird King
- Year
- 1810
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- overall: 75.72 × 70.64 cm (29 13/16 × 27 13/16 in.) framed: 94.62 × 89.85 × 5.72 cm (37 1/4 × 35 3/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1810-283172
Source
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Source
- nga
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified