Eric Ravilious (British, 1903-1942), Mount Caburn, 1935. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 18½ x 23¼ in.
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Otto Strützul (1855-1930) - A team of horses ploughing in an extensive landscape
Oil on canvas. 29.5 x 39.4 inches, 75 x 100 cm.
Estimate: €1,500-2,500.
Failed to sell Nagel, Stuttgart, 17 Nov 2022.
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From bull fighters to bull costumes, bull mountains to golden bulls, here’s my collection of vintage bull imagery.
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Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975), Spring Ploughing, c.1940. Oil on canvas, 22 3/8 x 30 1/4 in.
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This one may make you furrow your brow
My tiny little town here at the end of the earth is full of farms and farmers. Now that spring is here, they'll soon be out plowing the fields.
Hmmm. Plowing the fields. Linguistically, that means they're either suffering from delirium or they're a pack of liars. I guess I'd better explain. And we'll make it the Word of the Day. In fact, it will be a twofer...two fer the price of one.
Let’s have a go at “delirium" first, meaning madness, an acute but usually temporary mental disturbance, characterized by restlessness, excitement and delusions. The Latin word “lira” referred to the ridge between furrows of a plowed field. If you were “de lira” (the Latin verb was “delirare,” to be deranged), you had gone out of the furrows, you deviated from a straight line. In other words, you had gone nuts.
I ain’t lying. Or, to use a somewhat more genteel word, I’m not prevaricating. If you are a prevaricator – someone who evades or deviates from the truth; that is, a liar – it appears you also can’t plow a straight line. The Latin words “prae” (“before”) and “varicare” (“to straddle”) were, according to Pliny, first applied to men who plowed crooked ridges, straddling the furrows, and later applied to men who gave crooked answers in courts of law.
So, whether plowing the fields or just living your life, my advice to you is “keep on the straight and narrow,” lest someone accuse you of being a crazed liar. Or a Republican.
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100 Years of Horsepower, fun!
100 Years of Horsepower, fun!
At the last minute, on the last day, we made it. Keith and I headed to the 100 Days of Horsepower that is! Tom Renner, his son Jake and grandson Jonathon have an amazing collection of tractors in Belleville, Illinois. They were on display outside as well as their agricultural museum! The museum was open at the show during the show.
The 100 Days Horsepower was much like a mini-Half Century of…
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