Turning harvested and threshed grain into food required it to be crushed into flour in mills, powered either by wind or water.
Astrup
Was ripe wheat cut using a sickle, hook, or scythe? Paintings from 1565 to 1890 show a preference for scythes when men were available.
Paintings of gardeners by Bazille, Sisley, Caillebotte, Pissarro, Grant Wood and others.
Concluded with paintings from Willard Metcalf, Pierre Bonnard, JW Waterhouse, Nikolai Astrup, Paul Nash and others.
Landscape paintings by Daubigny, Sisley, Berkos, Astrup, Pissarro, Julian Onderdonk, Granville Redmond, Théo van Rysselberghe and others.
Glass bottles contain potions, including medicines for the sick, and more generally for scientific purposes. Some also contain alcoholic drinks.
Paintings from Norway to California, from Nikolai Astrup, Ants Laikmaa, Lovis Corinth, George Breitner, George Clausen, Paul Nash and Colin Campbell Cooper.
How the tradition of Christmas trees is relatively recent, family scenes of celebrating the day before Christmas, and how it also became a day to remember the poor and others less fortunate.
Paintings of rugged mountains on the coast and lining deep fjords, from Peder Balke, Hans Gude, Eilert Normann, and others.
When the sun doesn’t set at all, or sinks little before rising again. Paintings from North Cape to the US East Coast.
