Threshing Floor, Santa Fe
Date1924, 1925
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions30 1/8 × 40 1/8 in. (76.5 × 101.9 cm)
frame: 38 1/4 × 48 in. (97.2 × 121.9 cm)
frame: 38 1/4 × 48 in. (97.2 × 121.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of the John Sloan Memorial Foundation, 1997
Object number1997-44
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThis painting depicts a circular corral of sunbaked mud where wheat was threshed by driving goats over it in order to separate the grain from chaff. This ancient method of threshing was imported to the Southwest by Spanish colonists, but was largely eliminated when animal and steam-powered threshing machines were invented in the 19th century.
