ClassificationsWorks of Art on Paper
Artist
Marguerite Kumm
(American, 1902 - 1992)
Harvest 1943
Dateca.1943
MediumAquatint
Credit LineGift of Carl and Marian Mullis
Dimensions8 11/16 x 6 1/8 in. (22.1 x 15.5 cm)
Object number2000.017.002
Label TextIn this symbolic work from the Second World War, the landscape, sown with the dead, yields a harvest of crosses. This print employs an agricultural metaphor to show the landscape changed, as the nation was, by the ranks of dead fallen in war. The dark sky, long shadows, and slumping central cross all lend a sense of tragic loss. The three crosses in the foreground suggest the Crucifixion, perhaps raising the hope that the sacrifice is for a greater good. Kumm uses the landscape as a symbol of the American spirit in a somewhat abstracted form. This print was awarded a Society of American Etchers prize in 1943, and was commemorated in an American Artists Group book of prize prints published in 1949.Exhibition HistoryCultivating America: Visions of the Landscape in Twentieth-Century Prints, Michael C. Carlos Museum, March 8 - June 29, 2008
ProvenanceEx coll. Carl Mullis, United States, purchased 1991.
Status
Not on viewCollections
- Works of Art on Paper
late 18th Century
early 4th Century BCE
