Hay in Art Database: Search Results Your search returned 221 matches.
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Image: ID: 33 Artist: Bruegel, Pieter (Elder) Artist Birth Date: 1525 Artist Death Date: 1569 Artist Country: Flemish Title of Work: Haymaking Date of Work: 1565 Medium: oil Period/Style: sixteenth century URL: http://breughel.8m.net/cgi-bin/i/hooioogst.jpg Citation: Index Words: hayfield, haycocks, workers, woman, scythe, rake, horse Place: Netherlands Notes: ^^^ One of the great depictions of work in the rural landscape, carefully observed (note the range of greens used to reflect the drying of the hay), celebrating the satisfaction of productive labor (note the tired pleasure in the faces of the women on their way homeward), and expansive in its creation of an idealized landscape with recognizable elements from the Alps to the northern meadows of lowland Europe. Essays: Dixton Manor haymaking: a visual encyclopedia, Hay poets born in the late nineteenth century.
Image: ID: 133 Artist: Mount, William Sidney Artist Birth Date: 1807 Artist Death Date: 1868 Artist Country: American Title of Work: Farmer whetting his scythe Date of Work: 1848 Medium: oil Period/Style: nineteenth century URL: http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=21906 Citation: Frankenstein, Alfred. William Sidney Mount. NY: Abrams, 1975, plate 31 [color] Index Words: hayfield, scythe Place: New York Notes: ^^^ A serene composition, in which a gently smiling farmer, standing in a half-cut hay meadow sharpens his scythe. His balanced pose is is reinforced by the curving diagonal of the blade and the gentle arc of the handle. In the background, perfectly bisecting the frame is Long Island Sound and the low Connecticut shore beyond. The still standing, flowery meadow grass is particularly well done. Essays:
Image: ID: 330 Artist: unknown Artist Birth Date: Artist Death Date: Artist Country: Title of Work: [haystack in a farmyard, St. Augustine, Florida] Date of Work: 1871 Medium: engraving Period/Style: nineteenth century URL: http://www.corbis.com/ Citation: BE087838 Index Words: haystack, haycap, dog, Florida Place: Florida Notes: A pole-centered haystack in a farmyard in Florida has the tatters of a protective cap. Perhaps its narrow shape, the length of the pole protruding, and the condition of the cap, all signify a reduced state, approaching the next haymaking season. Essays:
Image: ID: 331 Artist: Fowler, Daniel Artist Birth Date: 1810 Artist Death Date: 1894 Artist Country: Title of Work: Haymaking Date of Work: 1875 Medium: watercolor Period/Style: nineteenth century URL: http://www.hayinart.com/images/331.jpg Citation: Artscanada v24 (December 1967) p. 13. Index Words: haystacks, haycart, ladder, workers, Canada Place: United States Notes: A descriptive watercolor sketch of two workers building haystacks from a horsedrawn cart. The stack to the left is conical and probably finished; the one to the right is loaf-shaped. Judging from the length of the ladder, it is still far from complete. Essays:
Image: ID: 332 Artist: Knowlton, Helen Mary Artist Birth Date: 1832 Artist Death Date: 1918 Artist Country: American Title of Work: Haystacks Date of Work: 1875-1878 Medium: oil Period/Style: nineteenth century URL: http://www.mfa.org/collections/ Citation: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Index Words: haystacks, haycart, wagon Place: United States Notes: An enigmatic scene, probably painted from a stackyard. Three large stacks are clearly shown Essays:
Image: ID: 333 Artist: Hunt, William Morris Artist Birth Date: 1824 Artist Death Date: 1879 Artist Country: American Title of Work: Haying by oxen Date of Work: 1876 Medium: oil Period/Style: nineteenth century URL: http://128.11.41.128/artemis/fullrecord.asp?oid=35782&did=100 Citation: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Index Words: haycart, workers Place: United States Notes: The ox cart and the two men loading hay onto it are at the top of a round hill, silhouetted against the sky. Essays:
Image: ID: 334 Artist: Wolf, Henry (after Homer, Winslow) Artist Birth Date: 1852 Artist Death Date: 1916 Artist Country: American Title of Work: In the fields Date of Work: 1877 Medium: engraving Period/Style: nineteenth century URL: http://search.famsf.org/4d.acgi$Record?30378&=list&=1&=henry%20wolf%20fields&=And&=2&=0&=keywords&=Yes&=&=&=&=Yes&=&=f Citation: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Imagebase Index Words: hayfield, worker, scythe Place: United States Notes: This engraving is closely based on Winslow Homer's 'Song of the Lark' Essays:
Image: ID: 335 Artist: Hittell, Charles Artist Birth Date: 1861 Artist Death Date: 1938 Artist Country: American Title of Work: [hay barge] Date of Work: 1881 Medium: drawing Period/Style: nineteenth century URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/dynaweb/calher/honeyman/figures/HN002078aA.jpg Citation: Bancroft Library, UC, Berkeley Index Words: hay-boat, California Place: California Notes: During the nineteenth century, sail boats brought hay from the rural reaches of the San Francisco Bay to the cities of Oakland and San Francisco. Essays: Hay on water
Image: ID: 336 Artist: Alexander, Francis Artist Birth Date: 1800 Artist Death Date: 1880 Artist Country: American Title of Work: Leete Farm, West Claremont, New Hampshire Date of Work: Medium: oil Period/Style: nineteenth century URL: http://www.hayinart.com/images/336.jpg Citation: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Index Words: haycocks, wagon, oxen, architecture Place: New Hampshire Notes: A na•ve depiction of a group of New England farm buildings, with a haymaking scene. The museum annotation notes that 'while Alexander complained of haying as a farm boy in Killingly, Connecticut, he has infused the classic New England Farm with tranquillity.' Essays:
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