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Tekoa Farm

Accession #:	3426.1
Title:	Tekoa Farm
Object Type:	Print
Participants:	Spokane Art Center Engard, Robert O.
Physical Description:	Lithograph on paper depicting a farm setting with barn, house, and rolling hills in the background.
Description:	Robert Engard taught lithography classes at the Works Progress Administration's Spokane Art Center from 1937 to 1941 and worked most of his life in the printing trade. His lithograph, "Tekoa Farm," depicts a typical, Palouse farm family business. The distinctive Palouse hills along the Washington-Idaho border offer excellent climate and soil for soft white wheat, once transported by rail, and now trucked to inland port cities, barged down the Columbia River, and shipped mainly to Asian markets. Crop rotation includes other grains, peas and lentils.
Category:	Art
Subjects/Topics/Concepts:	landscape
Geographical Reference:	Spokane (Washington->Spokane County); Palouse (Regional)
Dimensions:	support height 11 1/2" Support Width 14 1/2" image height 9 1/8" image width 11 7/8" mat height 16" mat width 20"
Materials/Techniques:	paper (fiber product) ( -> -> ) (Material)
Marks/Inscription:	On work: Tekoa Farm 6/7 Location: LLC Signature: Robert O. Engard Location: LRC
Related Exhibits:	Hometowns: Heart of the Inland Northwest Art and People: The Spokane Art Center and the Great Depression Inland Northwest Narrative: Crossroads and Confluence
Credit Line:	Museum Purchase, 1989
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