1. MFA VTS: Depictions of Labor through time in Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2. Lesson 1

3. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Children Working in the Field
Provenance
Acquired by Richard Morehouse Gallery from dealer, 2004; acquired by Dr. J. Patrick Kennedy, 2004 (San Leandro, CA); by whom given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession Date: December 17, 2008)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. J. Patrick Kennedy
1908–16
Lewis W. Hine, American, 1874–1940
Dimensions
Sheet: 12.7 x 17.8 cm (5 x 7 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Photograph, vintage gelatin silver print

4. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Provenance
ex. Jaeger Collection Leonard A. Lauder Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fractional gift of Lauder (Accession date: March 20, 2002).
Credit Line
Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards
Japanese, Late Meiji era - Taisho era,
Artist Unknown, Japanese
Place of Creation
Japan
Dimensions
Overall: 8.8 x 13.8 cm (3 7/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Collotype with hand coloring; ink on card stock

5. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Clean Up or Else
1910
Lewis W. Hine, American, 1874–1940
Dimensions
12.7 x cm (5 x 7 in.)
Medium
Photograph, gelatin silver print
Classification
Photographs
Accession Number

6. Lesson 2

7. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Haymaking
1892 Julien Dupré (French, 1851–1910)
Dimensions
81.3 x 64.8 cm (32 x 25 1/2 in.)
Accession Number
31.907
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

8. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Skull, Talkeetna, Alaska
Provenance
The artist; gift September 1999.
Credit Line
Gift of Bradford and Barbara Washburn
Copyright
© Bradford Washburn, courtesy Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
1955
Bradford Washburn, American, 1910–2007
Dimensions
Image: 25.4 x 25.4 cm (10 x 10 in.) Sheet: 35.5 x 28.0 cm (14 x 11 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Photograph, gelatin silver print, selenium toned

9. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Harvesters Resting (Ruth and Boaz)
1850–53 Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)
Catalogue Raisonné
Murphy 39
Dimensions
67.3 x cm (26 1/2 x 47 1/8 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

10. Lesson 3

11. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Indian Hunter
modeled 1917, this cast 2002 Paul H. Manship (American, 1885–1966), Cast by Paul King Foundry
Object Place: Johnston, Rhode Island
Dimensions
Overall: x 88.9 cm (56 x 35 in.) Overall (footprint of base): 126 x cm (49 5/8 x 39 7/8 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Bronze

12. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Storm Over Lake Otsego
1929 John Steuart Curry (American, 1897–1946)
Dimensions
x cm (40 1/8 x 50 1/4 in.)
Accession Number
55.369
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

13. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Butcher Shop
1642 David Teniers the Younger (Flemish, 1610–1690)
Dimensions
Overall: 68.4 x 98cm (26 15/16 x 38 9/16in.) Framed: 88.9 x cm (35 x 46 in.)
Accession Number
89.500
Medium or Technique
Oil on panel

14. Lesson 4

15. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
The Book Bindery
1850s Unidentified artist, American, 19th century
CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ
Karolik cat. no 32, fig. 20
DIMENSIONS
Sheet: 15.2 x 22.5 cm (6 x 8 7/8 in.)
ACCESSION NUMBER
58.835
MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE
Graphite and watercolor on paper
NOT ON VIEW
COLLECTIONS
Prints and Drawings

16. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Children Feeding Geese
1881 Julien Dupré (French, 1851–1910)
Dimensions
81.6 x 65.1 cm (32 1/8 x 25 5/8 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

17. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Corn Husking Frolic
about 1828
Alvan Fisher, American, 1792–1863
Dimensions
70.8 x cm (27 7/8 x 24 1/2 in.)
Medium
Oil on panel
Classification
Paintings
Accession Number
62.270

18. Lesson 5

19. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
An Artist in His Studio
about 1904 John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)
Dimensions
Overall: 56.2 x 72.1cm (22 1/8 x 28 3/8in.)
Accession Number
05.56
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

20. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Pat Lyon at the Forge
1826–27
John Neagle, American, 1796–1865
Dimensions
x cm (93 3/4 x 68 in.)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
PaintingsAccession Number

21. What is going on in this image?
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What more can we find?
The Fog Warning
Halibut Fishing
1885 Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)
Dimensions
76.83 x cm (30 1/4 x 48 1/2 in.)
Accession Number
94.72
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas