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Sugaring Off by Philip von Saltza
Photo CreditCarol M. Highsmith Photography
Sugaring Off
Photo CreditCarol M. Highsmith Photography

Sugaring Off

Year1939
Classification painting
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions5.88 × 16.25 ft. (70 9/16 × 195 in.)

Credits New Deal Art Program
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
  • A winter scene, with snow in the woods, showing process of making maple sugar; two cars next to sugazr house, where sap is being boiled; two boys playing in snow, dog barking, cords of wood; two oxen in center, hauling sled with large barrel of sap with two men pouring sap into it.