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Harvest

How did the artist get this idea?

Harriet Bart came up with the idea for Harvest while working on another project in Iowa. Driving back and forth between Minnesota and Iowa, she passed cornfields and farms in spring, summer, winter, and fall. Bart liked the beauty of the rural landscape and farm architecture, including barns, silos, and corncribs. She began to research farm architecture and decided to build a corncrib as part of her sculpture.