The Pumpkin Harvest, 1897
Giovanni Segantiniexpand_more
Oil on canvasexpand_more
Gift of Curtis Galleries, Minneapolis, MNexpand_more 2006.34
On View in Gallery 359expand_more
Humanity’s relationship to nature is a core theme in the paintings of Giovanni Segantini. This late picture represents a bucolic pumpkin harvest overwhelmed by the excessive steam (and blaring sound, no doubt) of a passing train. A frightened child holds onto her mother for protection in the foreground, as if the field is under assault. Their rural way of life has been overtaken by the rapid transformations wrought by the Industrial Revolution.
Details
- Title
- The Pumpkin Harvest
- Artist Life
- 1858 - 1899
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2006.34
- Curator Approved
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