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Old Pennsylvania Farm in Winter

Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
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Object Details

Artist
Arthur E. Cederquist, born Titusville, PA 1884-died Titusville, PA 1954
Exhibition Label
Snow has blanketed this Pennsylvania farm, but Arthur Cederquist's painting shows that the farmer is not cut off from the world. A prominent row of poles carries telephone service and possibly also the relative luxury of electric power as well. Only about a quarter of Pennsylvania's farms had electricity during the early nineteen thirties, but this was far above the national average of ten percent of farms that were electrified. Railroad tracks run in the foreground. A car, which has recently driven down the snowy farm lane leaving tire tracks, is parked by the farmhouse. Cederquist was clearly proud of the modern technology serving the old but solid wooden farm buildings.
Either train or car would have brought Cederquist from his home in New York back to Pennsylvania, where he was born. Like many of the artists involved in the Public Works of Art Project, Cederquist studied art and kept a home base in New York, but his art featured his birthplace. His three paintings for the PWAP were all set in rural Pennsylvania.1934: A New Deal for Artists exhibition label
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor
1934
Object number
1964.1.37
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
Painting
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
30 1/8 x 40 1/8 in. (76.5 x 102.0 cm.)
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
Department
Painting and Sculpture
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Topic
Landscape\road
Landscape\farm
Landscape\season\winter
Landscape\Pennsylvania
New Deal\Public Works of Art Project\New York City
Architecture Exterior\farm\barn
Architecture Exterior\domestic\farmhouse
Record ID
saam_1964.1.37
Metadata Usage (text)
Not determined
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7fee69e2e-17ef-43f3-bc70-caa19c72a636

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