Mary Binford Miller (20th C. Kansas)

Pitchin' Hay

2011

The oil on artist's board, painted in the realist style on an impressive scale, is interesting and appealing for its complex composition of detailed farm machinery, circular wheels, angular hay chute, grid-like wagon gate, and linear belts juxtaposed with the simplicity of two well-drafted figures at work in the sun against a big, blue sky.

The neo-regionalist themes curiously play with another juxtaposition of archaic belt-driven, presumably steam powered, machinery at work in a 21st century genre scene.

In the context of art, neo is often used to describe a new movement that is inspired by or reacting to an earlier movement, in this case the Regionalist movement of the 1930s most associated with Midwest artists Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry.

Board measures 48 x 48 with a framed size of 56.25 x 56.25 inches.

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Very fine original untouched condition. There are no issues of scratches, losses, repairs, in-painting or touch-up.