Farming

Farming

Marquand Mini Exhibit
Sept 2019

Many students, including me, associate September with the beginning of another academic year, but Marquand’s newest exhibit is timely for more reasons other than the end to summer vacation. Here is a collection of photographs and paintings put together to celebrate farmers everywhere. Amid the business of classes and the excitement of reconnecting with old friends, it’s easy to forget that as we transition into autumn, harvest season approaches. How often are we idle enough to consider what’s beyond the things we see on our plates, like the curious stages in the life of an apple that grows on a tree and of the person who picks it, too? Or how it feels to work the land side by side in the hot sun tending plants and harvesting the fresh food we eat? Ever wonder about the intricate geometry required to frame and raise a barn by hand? One of my favorite images from the selections here can be found in Jamie Wyeth’s (1946-   ) book, which presents paintings from his exhibition Farm Work. About his experience of portraying an animal he says, “Pigs stare at you while you paint them. They have very human eyes.” How about that?

Noelia Carbajal ‘22

On display:

Judith A. Barter
America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s
London and Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016
Marquand, ND212 .A4478 2016q

Michael L. Carebach
Farm Security Administration Photographs of Florida
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993
Marquand Photography, F312 .C37 1993

Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr.
The Old Farm
New York: R. H. Russell, 1901
Marquand Photography, TR654.E324 1901q

P.J. Fowler
Farms in England, Prehistoric to Present
London: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, 1983
Marquand, NA8200.F68

Frits Gierstberg
Mixed Farming: The Changing Agrarian Landscape
Rotterdam: NAi; Amsterdam: SKOR, 2004
Marquand Photography, TR739.5 .M593 2004

Stephen H. Goddard
Remembering the Family Farm: 150 Years of American Prints
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 2001
Marquand, NE508.R452 2001

David Larkin
Farm: The Vernacular Tradition of Working Buildings
New York: Monacelli Press, 1995
Marquand, NA8201.L37 1995q

Jamie Wyeth
Farm Work
Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine River Museum, 2011
Marquand, ND237.W99 A4 2011