Sketch for ​“Tribute to the American Working People”

Honoré Sharrer, Sketch for "Tribute to the American Working People", ca. 1949, oil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Perez Zagorin, 2007.24
Honoré Sharrer, Sketch for "Tribute to the American Working People", ca. 1949, oil on paperboard, 8 3⁄4 x 7 in. (22.2 x 17.8 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Perez Zagorin, 2007.24

Artwork Details

Title
Sketch for ​“Tribute to the American Working People”
Artist
Date
ca. 1949
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
8 3⁄4 x 7 in. (22.2 x 17.8 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Perez Zagorin
Mediums Description
oil on paperboard
Classifications
Subjects
  • Figure group
  • Occupation — industry
  • Study
  • Architecture Exterior — detail — window
  • Architecture Exterior — industry — factory
Object Number
2007.24
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2007.24

Works by this artist (4 items)

Honoré Sharrer, Tribute to the American Working People, 1951, oil on composition board, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation, 1986.6.97
Tribute to the American Working People
Artist
Date1951
oil on composition board
Not on view
Honoré Sharrer, Sketch for "Tribute to the American Working People", ca. 1949, oil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Perez Zagorin, 2007.24
Sketch for ​“Tribute to the American Working People”
Artist
Dateca. 1949
oil on paperboard
Not on view
Honoré Sharrer, "Property and labor in different classes are essentially antagonistic; but property and labor in the same class are essentially fraternal...Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer."--Horace Mann on the nature of education. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., 1951, gouache on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.269
“Property and labor in different classes are essentially…
Artist
Date1951
gouache on paperboard
Not on view
Honoré Sharrer, "Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."--Henry Peter Brougham, The Present State of Law, 1828. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., 1956, gouache and pencil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.268
“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to…
Artist
Date1956
gouache and pencil on paperboard
Not on view