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Portrait of a Boy, 1890

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925)

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Photograph © 2007 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; used with permission

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925). Portrait of a Boy, 1890. Oil on canvas. 56 1/8 x 39 1/2 in. (142.6 x 100.3 cm). Patrons Arts Fund. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

Photograph © 2007 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

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Picturing America is a K-12 teaching tool created by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The tool consists of 40 art-historic images of paintings, sculpture, drawings, decorative objects and architecture that represent several centuries of U.S. history. Used singly, chronologically or thematically, the images provide gateways to cross-curriculum learning in social studies, history, writing, literature, geography, civics, and other subjects.

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