Livestock Rendered: Animal Painting, Meatpacking and the Founding Collection of the Frye Art Museum by Kathleen Chapman

“…This paper explores contradictions surrounding animal paintings in the Founding Collection of Seattle’s Frye Art Museum. The collection, assembled by Charles and Emma Frye, who settled in Seattle in the late 1800s, features nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century paintings by European artists, and includes numerous images of farm animals in agrarian settings in which any evidence of modern agricultural advances is absent and idyllic depictions of close, peaceful bonds between humans and domesticated animals predominate. …”
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