David Edwin Bernard
United States, born 1913 Threshing Run # 7
Color woodcut
Spencer Museum of Art: Gift of Charles L. Marshall, 1992.0213
Bernard was born in Sandwich, Illinois, studied at the University of Iowa, and is now Professor Emeritus of Art and Fine Printmaking at Wichita State University. This print shows to good advantage the drive belt connecting the steam-driven tractor to the threshing machine. It took special skill to line up the implements involved in this complex operation that separated grain from straw. The belts were often quite long in part because the greater length meant more weight and thus better traction. This print was produced for the Friends of Art, Kansas State University.
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