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Gang-Plow by Julius Woeltz
Photo CreditGSA\Keith Andreucci
Gang-Plow
Photo CreditGSA\Keith Andreucci

Gang-Plow

Year1941
Classification painting
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions6'6-1/2" x 5'10"
Credits New Deal Art Program
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
  • Left side of South wall.  One of six panels depicting the life and landscape of the Panhandle.  Man driving a tractor pulling a plow on a diagonal.  One of two sections divided by a window showing the methods of plowing the fields.  The grain industry of the Panhandle is depicted. One of six panels depicting the life and landscape of the Panhandle. Woeltz won a competition entered by 64 artists from the Southwest.  He was selected "for the distinction of the artist's style, for his feeling for light which might be used to advantage in painting Panhandle landscape and for his architectural quality of design".