"Our whole apple cart's gone over," he said. "They've got me - to the last dollar."
Date1919
Artist
Arthur E. Becher
(American artist and illustrator, 1877–1960)
Illustration Citation"Prairie Mother," by Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer, in Pictorial Review, April 1920
MediumCrayon on illustration board
Dimensions19 7/8 × 25 in. (50.5 × 63.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of the estate of Frieda Becher, 1971
Object number1971-88
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextPrairie Mother is the story of a New England socialite who has left a life of privilege to marry to a Scots-Canadian wheat farmer in Alberta. Here she learns that their livelihood is threatened.
