Checkers+up+at+the+Farm

Date: patented 1875
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1882/1882.1.8_1a.jpg?itok=UleJJ-FQ width="320" height="314" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/checkers-up-at-the-farm-21138"]] || Title: **Checkers up at the Farm**

Artist: **John Rogers** Born: Salem, Massachusetts 1829 Died: New Canaan, Connecticut 1904

Medium: painted plaster Dimensions: 20 3/8 x 17 1/2 x 12 5/8 in. (51.9 x 44.6 x 32.2 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of John Rogers and Son

Accession: 1882.1.8 || John Rogers created several groups that depicted people playing checkers. The first of these, //Checker Players//, was modeled in 1859 and received so much publicity that Rogers decided to devote all of his time to sculpting. //Checkers up at the Farm// was completed some fifteen years later and was Rogers’s second most popular piece, with a total sale of five thousand copies. The artist’s wife, Hattie, was the model for the farmer’s wife who watches the final moments of the game.
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