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    		• Weir, Julian Alden,
     
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    		• Occupation -- Farm
     
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    		• Landscape -- Farm
     
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    		• Figure male -- Full length
     
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    		• Animal -- Cattle
     
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    		• Object -- Tool
     
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    		• Landscape -- Plant
     
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    		• Painting
     
     
    Ploughing for Buckwheat, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Weir, Julian Alden, 1852-1919, painter.
    Title: 
    Ploughing for Buckwheat, (painting).
    Other Titles: 
    New England Plowman, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1898; retouched ca. 1912.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    47 x 32 1/2 in. (119.4 x 82.6 cm).
    Inscription: 
    (Lower left:) J. Alden Weir./Branchville, Conn. signed
    Description: 
    A farmer and two cattle plow a field. A child is seated on the ground.
    Subject: 
    Occupation -- Farm
    Landscape -- Farm
    Figure male -- Full length
    Animal -- Cattle
    Object -- Tool -- Plow
    Landscape -- Plant -- Buckwheat
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Accession Number: 12.3
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Weir, Julian Alden, until 1912.
    Purchased 1912.
    Exhibitions: 
    Carnegie Institute 1898 International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1898, no. 234.
    Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901, no. 576.
    Carnegie Institute 1912 International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1912, no. 329.
    Carnegie Institute 1920 International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1920, no. 357.
    Remarks: 
    Formerly titled A New England Ploughman.
    References: 
    Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992.
    Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 1990.
    Catalogue of Painting Collection, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973, pg. 178.
    "Ten American Painters" New York, NY: Spanierman Gallery, 1990, fig. 13.
    "Larkin, Susan G., "American Impressionism: The Beauty of Work," Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 2005, no. 17.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992, pg. 476.
    "Ten American Painters" New York, NY: Spanierman Gallery, 1990, fig. 13.
    "Larkin, Susan G., "American Impressionism: The Beauty of Work," Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 2005, no. 17.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 46470080
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