Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Pumpkin Harvest

Giovanni Segantini

Date

1897

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Humanity’s relationship to nature is a core theme in the paintings of Giovanni Segantini. This late picture represents a bucolic pumpkin harvest overwhelmed by the excessive steam (and blaring sound, no doubt) of a passing train. A frightened child holds onto her mother for protection in the foreground, as if the field is under assault. Their rural way of life has been overtaken by the rapid transformations wrought by the Industrial Revolution. Italy, Europe

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