Smithsonian American Art Museum
Boy in Peasant Costume
Mary Louisa Adams Clement, born Newbury, MA 1882-died Warrenton, VA 1950 · 1907
Scenes of country life were popular at the turn of the century, and this painting shows a young boy in raffish clothes carrying a bundle of sticks. Wealthy Americans often displayed images of wholesome peasants as a way to establish and reinforce the class differences of the time.
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