We look across a grassy field toward farm buildings spaced along a low rise, outlined against a blue sky in this long, horizontal landscape painting. Just over a dozen mounds, like green haystacks, create a row along the bottom edge of the composition. Several men wearing white shirts, black pants, and tall, black hats work with rakes nearby. One man, wearing a yellow hat, walks holding the hand of a child, who wears a red shirt. A dog trots alongside another man who carries a basket and a bottle. To our right, another man works next to a wagon loaded with the green harvest. Two brown oxen…
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Ralph Wheelock's Farm

painter Francis Alexander (American, 1800 - 1880)

c. 1822

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 64.1 x 122.2 cm (25 1/4 x 48 1/8 in.) ; framed: 74.3 x 132.1 x 4.6 cm (29 1/4 x 52 x 1 13/16 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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