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Wielding pitchforks, men, women and children thresh corn in this rural scene by Evelyn Mary Dunbar. The horizontal composition captures the foreground activity and the fields stretching beyond and the cloudy sky. Long blue shadows cast by the figures on to the yellow corn suggest this is late afternoon. Dressed in headscarves, goggles and khaki-coloured overalls, the women are 'Land Girls' or members of The Women's Land Army (WLA). Dunbar painted 'Threshing, Kent' between 1942 and 1943, at the height of the Second World War. The only woman commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee, she recorded aspects of women's work on the Home Front. Before the War, the Government instigated a nationwide plan to grow more food in Britain, which involved civilian help on farms.
Title
Threshing, Kent
Date
c.1942–1943
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 31 x W 77 cm
Accession number
139
Acquisition method
gift from the War Artists' Advisory Committee via the Imperial War Museum, 1946
Work type
Painting
Government Art Collection
Old Admiralty Building, Admiralty Place, London, Greater London SW1A 2BL England
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