Object Details
- Artist
- William Josiah Brickey, born Potosi, MO 1826-died New Orleans, LA 1853
- Luce Center Label
- The participants in this courtroom scene focus their attention on a fair-skinned man dressed in rags, possibly one of the thousands of Irish immigrants who had escaped the potato famine and made their way to Missouri. These farmers settled in urban areas where they hired out as day laborers, struggling to get by with little income and no property of their own. (Parrish, gen. ed., A History of Missouri, vol. II, 1972) The men who sit in judgment are clearly more prosperous, and this painting evokes the mixed welcome that generations of European immigrants experienced in nineteenth-century America.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- 1852
- Object number
- 1974.112
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 29 1/8 x 36 in. (74.0 x 91.5 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 14B
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure group
- Animal\dog
- Occupation\law\judge
- Cityscape\Missouri
- State of being\other\poverty
- Occupation\law\lawyer
- Architecture Interior\civic\courthouse
- Record ID
- saam_1974.112
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7fbc00155-6481-48d4-afb9-32fc179779e0
