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| Talking It Over |
Artist:Enoch Wood Perry (1831–1915)
Date:1872
Culture:American
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:22 1/4 x 29 1/4 in. (56.5 x 74.3 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Erving and Joyce Wolf, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1980
Accession Number:1980.361
Perry’s canvases conjured happy memories for urban viewers by celebrating a vanishing way of life. The Yankee farmers portrayed here, however, resemble George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and thus summoned up more than simple nostalgic reverie. By seating the two icons of ideal American citizenry in a barnlike interior, Perry honored rural values in the face of the pressures of massive immigration and the unprecedented industrial and economic growth the nation was then experiencing.
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