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A Quick Game of Cards, (painting). Artist:  Schenck, Edwin, painter. Title:  A Quick Game of Cards, (painting). Dates:  1886. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  26 x 30 in. Inscription:  (In upper left corner:) Edwin Schenck signed Description:  A group of men playing cards in an interior setting. Three men holding cards are seated on crates around a barrel. An African-American man stands in the background, on the right, watching the game. A fifth man stands on the left, his back to the viewer, and he appears to be peeking through a slightly opened door. A saw and an axe are on the floor at the left. Subject:  Figure group -- Male Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Cards Ethnic -- African American Object -- Tool -- Saw Object -- Tool -- Axe Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Davis, William R., Mr. & Mrs., Box 11, Hyannisport, Massachusetts 02647 References:  Davis, William R., Mr. & Mrs., 1997. Illustration:  Image on file. 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 9D590007   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 9D590007 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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