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13:05 06/10/2009

This piece is fantastic on so many levels: the expressive face, his wilted hat, that perpetually daunting human question...

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For What Was I Created?

Artist: William Holbrook Beard, American, 1824-1900
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dates: 1886
Dimensions: 19 15/16 x 16 in. (50.7 x 40.7 cm)
Signature: Signed and dated lower left: "W. H. Beard./1886"
Collections: American Art
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 49.4
Credit Line: Gift of Florence Logan
Image: Overall, 49.4_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2007

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13:05 06/10/2009

This piece is fantastic on so many levels: the expressive face, his wilted hat, that perpetually daunting human question...

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