Charles E. Weir
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
| Year Painted | 1842 |
| Collection Link | Museum |
| License | Public Domain |
| File Size (Pixels) | 3094 x 3728 |
| Best Print Size | 10 x 12 |
| *Max Print Size | 22 x 28 |
*Printing this file larger than the recommended max print size may result in a blurry or pixelated final print.
SUBJECT NOTE: One of only two known works by the artist, “The Wood Sawyer” stands out for its rare, respectful focus on a Black laborer in 19th-century New York. Elegantly dressed, the man may have also worked as a porter, in addition to his wood cutting duties depicted here outside a hotel. Rooting hogs in the background nod to the city’s sanitation struggles. In centering a free Black worker amid the grit of urban life, Weir captured both the labor and the lived reality often left out of American genre painting at the time.
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