We Gather Together: American Artists and the Harvest

by Charles C. Eldredge

The mutual history of art, agriculture, and American identity as told through the theme of the harvest.

The harvest has traditionally been a productive season, both on American farms and in its artists' studios. Before the early nineteenth century, the ideal of the Jeffersonian yeoman, singly cultivating a subsistence plot for family use, dominated the American imagination; after World War II, the advent of big agribusiness proved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520380312
• ISBN13: 9780520380318
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.4" x 10.2"