锯木机 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	锯木机
品名（英）	The Wood Sawyer
入馆年号	2018年，2018.6
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	Charles E. Weir【1823 至 1845】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1842
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尺寸	22 1/4 × 18 1/4 英寸 (56.5 × 46.4 厘米) Framed: 29 7/8 × 25 5/8 英寸 (75.9 × 65.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	"木锯木工"不同于任何已知的 19 世纪早期类型场景，它积极关注黑人形象。这幅画由纽约训练有素的查尔斯·威尔（Robert Weir）的弟弟）绘制，是艺术家现存的两幅作品之一。正如标题中所指出的，所描绘的人物是一个"锯木工"，正在切割木材，然后从敞开的凿子上送到一个敞开的凿子上——在石头人行道上可以看到它的链条铸铁帽——进入酒店的地窖，由悬挂的标志识别。男人优雅的着装也可能意味着作为搬运工的不同责任。中距离生根猪的存在表明，在快速工业化的纽约，特别是在工人阶级社区，动物也充当食物来源，面临卫生挑战。英国作家和社会评论家查尔斯·狄更斯（Charles Dickens）在1842年访问这座城市时，对他们"流浪，绅士风度，流浪汉般的生活"感到惊讶。他们从来不被照顾、喂食、驱赶或抓住，而是在早年生活中被扔在自己的资源上，并因此变得超自然地知道。此时此刻，夜幕降临，你会看到他们四分一秒地走向床上，吃到最后。韦尔选择强调这个关键的城市问题和一个自由的有色人种的重要劳动，揭示了作品的话题性。
介绍（英）	"The Wood Sawyer" is unlike any known early 19th-century genre scene in its positive focus on a Black figure. Painted by New York-trained Charles Weir (younger brother of the better-known Robert Weir), it is one of just two existing works by the artist. As noted in the title, the depicted figure is a ‘sawyer’, cutting wood to be sent down an open scuttle—visible with its chained cast-iron cap in the stone sidewalk—into the cellar of a hotel, identified by the hanging sign. The man’s elegant dress may also imply different responsibilities as a porter. The presence of rooting hogs in the middle distance indicate sanitation challenges in a rapidly industrializing New York, especially in working-class neighborhoods, where the animals also functioned as a source of food. On his 1842 visit to the city, English writer and social critic Charles Dickens was astonished by their "roving, gentlemanly, vagabond kind of life. They are never attended upon, or fed, or driven, or caught, but are thrown upon their own resources in early life, and become preternaturally knowing in consequence. . . . At this hour, just as evening is closing in, you will see them roaming towards bed by scores, eating their way to the last." That Weir chose to highlight both this critical urban problem and the significant labor of a free person of color reveals the topicality of the work.