Anna Ancher (b. Skagen 1859, d. s.p. 1935)
Purchased by Skagens Museum in June 2015
A harvest girl. Signed and dated A. Ancher 1901. Oil on cardboard. 32×24 cm.
Exhibited: Skagens Museum, “Skagens Guld/Værker i privateje”, 2011 no. P420, reproduced p. 29.
Around 1900 there was still farmland and farmhouses close to Ancher's house on Markvej, so Anna Ancher should not walk far to find the harvest motifs, that she painted several times, often with three or more field workers on the way to or from the day's deed.
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Paintings & drawings, 2 June 2015