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Husking

Art

Hand colored lithograph entitled Husking. Image depicts barn interior with one woman and two people in background husking corn. Chicken perches in hay loft. In the center, a young farmer bears a basket of husked corn on his shoulders. On the left, an older man braids corn while young girl at his knee looks on. On the right, a young couple sit gazing at each other. The young man is dressed for hunting, wears a powder horn, and has brace of birds at feet. Outside the barn door, on right is a rifle. Above the rifle is the inscription "Union Forever." This print is after a work, "Corn Husking 1860" originally by Eastman Johnson, in which the inscription on the barn door was Lincoln-Hamlin, the presidential ticket for 1860. This image is considered one of the best 50 Currier and Ives images.

2007.023

Lithograph

John L. Wehle Collection

Johnson, Eastman

Charles Severn

1861

Hand Colored Lithograph

American

Signature

Bottom left

Corn husking

Harvest

Barn

Farm life

Gun

Rifle

Hunting

Courting

Civil War, 1861-1865

20-3/4 in

27-3/4 in

Frame Size: 37 x 31

New oak frame, painted gold- reframe in more appropriate frame.

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