Hans HEYSEN
Germany 1877 – Australia 1968
Australia from 1884; Europe, England 1899-1903

Ploughing the field 1920
watercolour on paper
42.0 (h) x 52.5 (w) cm
Gift of the Estate of the Honourable George Brookman by his daughter and her family through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 1981

One of many pictures of field and farm—watercolours mostly—done without sentimentality, capturing the rural life of Hahndorf.

Polly and Jack were the two draught horses belonging to old Kramm who came in regularly to do the ploughing, cultivating and supering at The Cedars. Hans caught them in many moods.