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Yellow Grain

c. 1942

Joe Jones

(American, 1909–1963)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Framed: 98 x 122.5 x 9.5 cm (38 9/16 x 48 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 74.9 x 101.6 cm (29 1/2 x 40 in.)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1943.62
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

In his hometown of Saint Louis, the young Joe Jones first worked as a house painter, the same profession as his father.

Description

Joe Jones’s Yellow Grain presents a Midwest wheat harvest as a communal activity, with 10 workers engaging in a variety of tasks that include pitching hay and loading a thresher. This subject of harmonious collective labor may reflect the artist’s enthusiasm for Communist politics. The individual stalks of wheat, artfully arranged in the foreground, suggest the beauty and bounty of the crop.

Yellow Grain

c. 1942

Joe Jones

(American, 1909–1963)
America

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