Image: George Henry Durrie, Winter in the Country (c.1858). As we come to the end of the year, we also approach the end of this year’s theme for our Saturday art posts. This year we have focused on where food comes from as a subject; paintings that look at how we get our meat, dairy, […]

Image: Peter Hurd, Brinton’s Mill (1928) We have been focusing on harvest season for the last few weeks in our Saturday art posts about food and where it comes from. For today’s post we go another step in the process, to a painting of an old mill. The mill in this case was converted into […]

Image: Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field (1865). We return to the subject of harvest paintings for the Saturday art posts we do on this site. We also do paintings from Homer back-to-back with this post. Last week’s was obscure, this one is among his most famous and emotionally resonant. Painted in 1865, […]

Image: Winslow Homer, Crab Fishing (1883). We return to a favorite artist, and one that shares our occupation with the occupation of sourcing food. Though Winslow Homer is most associated with the lands and coasts of northeastern United States, this painting is from his time in England. The piece is in the collection of the […]

Image: Winslow Homer, Oranges on a Branch (1885). For the Saturday art post about food, we pick up on the theme of food sources with an unexpected painting. Winslow Homer is known for his scenes of Maine and cooler weather. But the painting above is from a trip the Bahamas of an orange tree full […]

Image: Alex Katz, Blueberry Field (1955). For our weekly art post we return to the theme of where food comes from. Consistent with the season, we have found a painting of a blueberry field. The painting is by Alex Katz, a notable post-war American artist. Katz was born in 1927, and amazingly lived to see […]