The Husking Bee

Description:	This painting depicts the community husking dried corn on a fall day to be used during the winter. That background of this painting is very large and colorful, taking up at least half of the painting. The background of this painting is a hill covered in trees with a barn sitting at the very top. The barn is a deep red with a light brown roof. One can see a small blue window on the second level of the barn. The trees lining the hill to the barn are a blend of oranges, yellows, browns, greens, and reds. The trunks of the trees cannot be seen making the line a large amount of colorful leaves. The area in front of the barn on the hill does not have any trees leaving a large area of greenery. At the base of the hill, there is a brown fence with three buggies hitched to it. Each buggy and its horse can be seen fully along the fence. Two have a brown horse and the third has a black horse. A couple walks from the buggies toward the field of cut corn in the bottom half of the painting. The field is lined with a brown fence that has had the middle planks removed to allow for a wagon to pass through into the field. The field has many tall white/brown stacks of corn stalks waiting to be husked. Each one is tied with a brown rope to hold all of the standing stalks together. They may remind one of a stack of wood ready to be burned in a bonfire. Around the field, people sit in groups of two or three husking the corn and placing the golden yellow cobs in a piles next to their group on the ground. Each group seems to made of at least one man and woman, possibly suggesting couples work together in this process. There are 25 people working on husking corn or moving the corn in the field. A green wagon pulled by a brown horse moves through the field picking up the husked corn to be transported when finished. One man in all black drives the wagon while another man in the same attire scoops corn in a basket to be dumped into the back of the wagon. The title of the painting, The Husking Bee, is in the center of the bottom edge of the painting in black. Schrocks signature is in the bottom right corner in black.
Source:	https://elchc.catalogaccess.com/objects/17556
Collection:	Evelyn Lehman Culp Heritage Collection
Copyright:	No Copyright - Non-commercial Use Only
Subjects:	Emma Schrock Collection Emma Schrock, Paintings, Emma Schrock Collection, Art, Grandma Moses of Elkhart County The Husking Bee

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