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| Henri-Edmond Cross Women tending Vines 1890 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Eugène Atget Faucheurs, Somme ca. 1890 later gelatin silver print from glass negative Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Camille Pissarro Paysans dans les champs, Éragny 1890 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Fritz von Uhde Gleaners 1889 oil on canvas Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Tobeen (Félix Elie Bonnet) Vendanges 1914 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Frederic Taubes Grading the Harvest (commissioned by the American Tobacco Company) 1942 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Carl Wilhelmson Farmworkers from Uppland 1904 oil on canvas Thiel Gallery, Stockholm |
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| Erik Werenskiold Dredging a Ditch 1886 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Anthony Whishaw Two Men Drilling 1956 oil on board Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry |
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| Gustav Wentzel Woman making Butter ca. 1920 oil on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Henry Walton Plucking the Turkey ca. 1775 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| Joy Hester Study of Sunday Reed in the Kitchen ca. 1947 oil on board National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Pietro Ricchi (il Lucchese) Young Cook in a Pantry ca. 1660 oil on canvas Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca |
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| Jehan-Georges Vibert The Marvelous Sauce ca. 1890 oil on panel Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Laurie Simmons Woman - Purple Dress - Kitchen 1976 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Caroline Walker Glass Wash 2024 oil on board private collection |
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| Santos Zingale Scrub Ladies 1937 lithograph National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
An Interview
Have you lived long, sir, in these parts?
– That hill would not think so.
What are your favourite loves, your special hates?
– The things I do not know.
Have you never wanted to move on?
– I have known that despair.
Yet you haven't actually up sticks and gone?
– Perhaps next year.
Have you seen many changes since you came?
– I have seen the green branch bare.
Yet I suppose a lot of things are the same?
– Your questionnaire.
What have you been doing all this time?
– Making my will,
Committing and solving crime,
Watching the sun over that hill.
What made you come here in the first place?
– It was not the first place.
Then you have memories going back earlier?
– As a child I stole fruit, was in disgrace.
But you've done pretty well since then?
– It was only one tree;
They say each year it drips with blood again,
Tears for my victory.
What is the secret of your long innings, sir?
Have you any tips to pass on to us?
– Try and grow used to the place of every star
And forget your own dark house.
– K.W. Gransden (1960)