SOME MORE FAVORITE WESTERN PAINTINGS
“The Veteran in a New Field” (1865)
by Winslow Homer
“Landscape at Broadway” (1885) by John Singer Sargent
“The Scream” (1893) by Edvard Munch
“The Veteran in a New Field” (1865) by Winslow Homer limns a vista of wheat, plenteous, golden, shining even more brilliantly opposite a swathe topmost of aquamarine sky. Symbolism lurks in this picture, for wheat is food, food is life. Swinging a scythe, the Union veteran now transformed into a farmer turns into a symbol of death. As the wiry survivor of the Civil War becomes one with the dreary executioner of life-giving wheat, life and death converge.
Bright yellow and blue color fields inflected by a central figure conspicuously wrought conjure up striking visual drama.
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| The Veteran in a New Field (1865) by Winslow Homer |
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