This bronze sculpture represents a young black boy carrying a small-mouthed jug. Both of his hands are wrapped around the jug in his arms, and another jug lays on its side at his feet. He is clothed in a tunic-like garment, and his posture is active: swinging arms, a cocked head, and bent knees.

Water Boy

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Cast by Basky Foundry

1930

Titles Water Boy (Proper)@Water Boy I (Alternate)
Artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, American, 1877 - 1968@Cast by, Basky Foundry, United States, New York, New York, operated about 1927 - 1949
Medium bronze
Dimensions sculpture: 10 1/4 × 6 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (26 × 16.5 × 8.9 cm) including stand: 13 × 8 × 5 3/4 in. (33 × 20.3 × 14.6 cm)
Credit Line Museum purchase, 2018.3
Work Type sculpture
Classification Sculpture
On View