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Artist:
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Willem Maris
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Title:
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Cattle Grazing at the Water's Edge
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Date:
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c.1880-90
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Medium:
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Oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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18 1/4 x 22 3/8 in. (46.36 x 56.83 cm) (outer frame)
15 5/8 x 19 5/8 in. (39.69 x 49.85 cm) (canvas)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Alan and Phyllis Rusterholz
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Location:
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Gallery MS
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The Dutch used windmills to pump salty water out of intricately designed irrigation systems, over dykes, and into the sea. They reclaimed land from marshes in order to graze cattle on their cheese and dairy farms.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Maris, Willem
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Nationality:
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Dutch
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Life Dates:
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Dutch, 1844 - 1910
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Signature Signed in lower right: [Willem Maris]
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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Cows near stream in meadow landscape; windmill in distance; guilded gold frame
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Creation Place:
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Europe, Netherlands, , ,
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Accession #:
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2010.108
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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