Agriculture (Farmer Killing Famine)

Name:

MAQUETTE

circa 1928

Country:

Great Britain London

Accession:

87.1440.6.1

Charles Sargeant Jagger Artist

Collection:

Object

Paintings and Sculpture

War and Political Propaganda

Subject:

Allegory , Agriculture , Figurative , Sculpture/Sculpture Design , Propaganda

Inches 14 8-3/4 5-1/2, Centimeters 35.6 22.2 14

Credit Line:

THe Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection

URL:

87.1440.6.1.JPG

Tags:

War and Political Propaganda~Paintings and Sculpture

Cast and painted plaster maquette for a bronze sculpture depicting a farmer using a spade to decapitate a skeleton; represents agriculture killing famine while a harvest cart brings in the grain.

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Image Rights and Reproductions

Title : Agriculture (Farmer Killing Famine)
Artist: Charles Sargeant Jagger Artist
Accession: 87.1440.6.1
Country: Great Britain London
Date: circa 1928
Dimensions: Inches 14 8-3/4 5-1/2, Centimeters 35.6 22.2 14
Collection: Object
Category: Paintings and Sculpture
Collection Theme: War and Political Propaganda
Subject: Allegory , Agriculture , Figurative , Sculpture/Sculpture Design , Propaganda
Credit Line: THe Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
URL: 87.1440.6.1.JPG
Tags: War and Political Propaganda~Paintings and Sculpture

Description:

Cast and painted plaster maquette for a bronze sculpture depicting a farmer using a spade to decapitate a skeleton; represents agriculture killing famine while a harvest cart brings in the grain.