Spencer Museum of Art The University of Kansas

Remembering the Family Farm

150 Years of American Prints

Farmyard in the Snow by William Dickerson
William Dickerson United States, 1904-1972
Farmyard in the Snow, 1940
Lithograph

Spencer Museum of Art, 0000.0248 Dickerson, from El Dorado, Kansas, was a student of Clarence Hotvedt at the School of the Wichita Art Association. He later studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. He taught at the Wichita Art Association and was a member of the Prairie Print Makers (Seaton). This is a straightforward image of a farmer doing chores in the Kansas winter. Sources