<i>The New Scales</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1967
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This painting, titled <i>The New Scales</i>, was made by Velox Ward, in 1967. It is an oil painting on a panel, depicting a man in a blue suit weighing a bag of cotton. The scales are marked “Morris Scale Co.”</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Velox Benjamin Ward, Sr. (1901-1994) was a self-taught American painter. Ward grew up on a farm in northeastern Texas. After moving away, Ward worked at a variety of jobs including a foundry shop, an automobile factory, a shoe repair business, and an antique and furniture reproductions shop. In 1960, Ward began painting, relying on his recollections of growing up in rural East Texas of outdoor scenes of ginning cotton, tending a garden, butchering meat, or relaxing on a front porch as inspiration for his work.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Texas, Longview
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content: Culture and the Arts: Ethnic
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Vogel
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.285050.01
label: catalog number
content: 285050.01
label: accession number
content: 285050
objectType: label: Object Name
content: painting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint, oil (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 61 cm x 45.7 cm; 24 in x 18 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 18 in x 2 in; 60.96 cm x 45.72 cm x 5.08 cm