Artwork Details
- Title
- The Farmer’s Kitchen
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1934
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 36 x 30 1⁄8 in. (91.5 x 76.5 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Animal — cat
- Figure female — elderly — knee length
- Occupation — domestic — cooking
- Dress — accessory — eye wear
- Dress — accessory — apron
- New Deal — Public Works of Art Project — Illinois
- Object — vegetable — radish
- Object — furniture — stove
- Architecture Interior — domestic — kitchen
- Object Number
- 1964.1.74
Artwork Description
Who is this poor farmwife, limp with weariness and lined with toil? One of Albright's neighbors in Warrenville, Illinois, posed for the painting. But no individual can explain the emotional freight of Albright's depiction. He aged and distorted every person he painted, young or old. Albright painted flesh that does not heal as living flesh does, but crumples and shows the scars of every event with equally cruel clarity.
1934: A New Deal for Artists exhibition label