Little Girl Holding an Apple

Benjamin Osro Eggleston

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Although best known as a portraitist, the Brooklyn painter Benjamin Osro Eggleston also enjoyed sketching the interesting characters he encountered around the city—an activity that harks back to his early career as a newspaper illustrator. This assured drawing captures the forceful personality of an anonymous girl whose anxious yet determined expression suggests she is steeling herself for a confrontation, perhaps with other children trying to take her apple.

Caption

Benjamin Osro Eggleston American, 1867–1937. Little Girl Holding an Apple, 1927. Graphite on cream, moderately thick, very smooth wove paper, sheet: 10 1/8 x 11 1/16 in. (25.7 x 28.1 cm) image: 6 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (16.5 x 6.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 75.187. Orphaned work (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 75.187_PS3.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Little Girl Holding an Apple

Date

1927

Medium

Graphite on cream, moderately thick, very smooth wove paper

Classification

Drawing

Dimensions

sheet: 10 1/8 x 11 1/16 in. (25.7 x 28.1 cm) image: 6 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (16.5 x 6.4 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower left of image in graphite: "BENJAMIN EGGLESTON / 1927"

Credit Line

Dick S. Ramsay Fund

Accession Number

75.187

Rights

Orphaned work

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