Milking the Cow

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Milking the Cow
Milking the Cow
Artist/Maker (Yugoslavian)
Date1974
MediumOil on glass
DimensionsComposition: 38.1 × 58.4 cm (15 × 23 in.) Frame: 55.2 × 76.2 × 4.8 cm (21 3/4 × 30 × 1 7/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Richard F. Plotka, Class of 1956
Object number1986.30
Not on view
Descriptionfarm landscape town in distance, woman miking cow, man beside her holding a rein to the cow

Additional Details

Exhibition History 1987
Clinton, NY. Bistol Campus Center, Hamilton College."Primitive Paintings from the Hamilton College Collection: Gifts of Richard F. Plotka '56", March 23 - June 1987 (no cat.)
Provenance 1986: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Richard F. Plotka.
Published References Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Friends of Art Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1, February 1988, "Acquisitions 1986"
Signature LL front
Inscribed piece of tape on verso bottom left frame "423" piece of tape verso center "do not take off this tape"
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