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.