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Forging the Shaft, (painting). Artist:  Weir, John Ferguson, 1841-1926, painter. Title:  Forging the Shaft, (painting). Dates:  1874-1877. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  52 x 73 1/4 in. (132.1 x 186.1 cm). Inscription:  (Lower left:) John F. Weir signed Description:  View of the interior of the West Point Iron and Cannon Foundry in Cold Spring, New York, where workers are casting the shaft for the propeller of an ocean liner. The men are grouped around the shaft, leaning back as they struggle to pull it out of the blazing fire, which illuminates the interior of the foundry. Subject:  Architecture interior -- Industry -- Foundry Architecture interior -- Industry -- West Point Iron and Cannon Foundry Figure group -- Male Occupation -- Labor Occupation -- Industry Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 01.7.1 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Weir, John Ferguson, New Haven, Connecticut until 1901. References:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 568. "Larkin, Susan G., "American Impressionism: The Beauty of Work," Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 2005, fig. 16. Illustration:  Image on file. Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 571. "Larkin, Susan G., "American Impressionism: The Beauty of Work," Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 2005, fig. 16. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 36120671   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36120671 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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