Monday, September 5, 2011

Labor Day!

And how better to celebrate than with some labor art. Searching through my extensive digital art collection, I've discovered a couple of things.  First, artists appear to generally avoid the subject of work.  It must either make them feel guilty or is simply not very aesthetic most of the time.  Second, women go around without clothes on a lot, both indoors and outdoors.  That really hasn't been my experience, but maybe they look places I don't. Maybe they're working girls.

So anyway, so art (mostly American Impressionists), showing labor. Click to embiggen.

Robinson - "Springtime, Vermont" 1895
Harris - Building the Ice House" 1915
Wendel - "Girl with Turkeys" 1886
Sargent - "Workmen at_Carrara" c1911
Shuttleworth - "Building the Bridge" 1918
Hansen - On an Iceland Fishing Boat
Sargent - "Dennis Miller Bunker Painting at Calcot" c1888

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