We Gather Together: American Artists and the Harvest Blackwing By Xavier F

By Xavier F

The International Block Print Renaissance Then and Now also celebrates the ongoing vigor of this renaissance through the work of 12 contemporary printmakers–Jean Gumpper

singly cultivating a subsistence plot for family use

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

We Gather Together: American Artists and the Harvest Blackwing By Xavier FThe mutual history of art, agriculture, and American identity as told through the theme of the harvest. The harvest has traditionally been a productive season, both on American farms and in its artists studios. Before the early nineteenth century, the ideal of the Jeffersonian yeoman, singly cultivating a subsistence plot for family use, dominated the American imagination; after World War II, the advent of big agribusiness proved less immediately