Talking It Over
Artist: Enoch Wood Perry (American, 1831–1915)
Original Dimensions: 22 1/4" x 29 1/4"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1872) "Perry’s canvases conjured happy memories for urban viewers by celebrating a vanishing way of life. The Yankee farmers portrayed here, however, resemble George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and thus summoned up more than simple nostalgic reverie. By seating the two icons of ideal American citizenry in a barnlike interior, Perry honored rural values in the face of the pressures of massive immigration and the unprecedented industrial and economic growth the nation was then experiencing." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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