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Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Oil painting of a boy with a light skin tone wearing a dark brown jacket and cap that nearly blend in to the like colored background. The boy looks out and slightly down and to our right, lips placed loosely together, and the a fringe of brown hair just emerging from the edge of his cap. Beneath his brown jacket he wears a collared, lighter brown ribbed shirt.

Head of a Boy

before 1885

George Fuller

(American, 1822–1884)
America
oil on canvas
Unframed: 61 x 50.7 cm (24 x 19 15/16 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection 1925.78
Location: Not on view
  • Artist's estate. Charles Lansing Baldwin. (Macbeth Gallery, New York). Mrs. Henry A. Everett, Cleveland.
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. Reproduced: p. 35 archive.org
    "Head of a Boy by George Fuller." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 12, no. 6. (June 1925): 104-106 Mentioned: p. 104-106; Reproduced: on cover
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. Reproduced: p. 43 archive.org
    "The Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 20, no. 1 (January 1933): 1-3 Mentioned: p. 1 www.jstor.org
    Francis, Henry. "The Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 25, no. 6, pt. 2 (June 1938): 124-131 Mentioned: p. 124 www.jstor.org
  • The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
    Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937).
    CMA, June 23 - October 4, 1937: "Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 until Today," cat. no. 65, p. 22
    The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).
  • {{cite web|title=Head of a Boy|url=false|author=George Fuller|year=before 1885|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1925.78