Hallowed Harvests

This remarkable gathering of commentary and selections of art and literature from the ages fosters reflection on the natural rhythms of planting and harvest. These timeless images depict celebration and destitution, wealth and poverty, and vulnerability and power increasingly unfamiliar to modern cultures artificially removed from the land. Living as twenty-first-century non-agrarians, our food supply comes primarily from farms far removed from most consumers. Hallowed Harvests encourages deep consideration of the experience and meaning of harvest over the centuries which has also affected my own work. My hope is that readers will similarly be deeply affected by the many truths evident in the art and literature described in this magnificent study.

-Rosemarie Adcock Founder,  Chapel Galleries, Dunlap, Illinois

Richard Scheuerman's "Harvest Project" series is the first comprehensive scholarly study of modern agrarian art and literature and is almost encyclopedic in content. Written by an exceptional educator, Hallowed Harvests features very extensive and useful appendices, endnotes, and bibliography. These books are invaluable resources for anyone interested in exploring this recently designated genre. General readers, artists, and authors wishing to start or expand a collection focused on any aspect of this art and literature should have them.

-Mark L. Moseman Co-Founder, Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art, David City, Nebraska