This work has a similar feel to Harvey’s Tulip Pickers. A glorious view of Mounts Bay with an azure blue sea frame a bucolic scene of men amidst a field of lush green brassicas. Towards the end of the 1920s, a thriving market gardening industry developed in Cornwall, growing spring crops such as carrots, cabbages and onions. We can see that the man in the foreground is using a sickle to harvest the cabbages, both men are stooped and although it is a glorious day, this must have been very demanding work under a hot sun.
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- Artist
- Henry G Hoyland
- Materials
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 50 x 60cm
- Collection
- Land & Sea