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"The Man with the Hoe"
Medium: Steel Bar  Created: 1991   Dimensions: 5'h x 2.5'w x 2.5'd
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This sculpture is based on Millet's painting and Edwin Markham's poem:

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages in his face,
And on his back the burden of the world.
Who made him dead to rapture and despair,
A thing that grieves not and that never hopes,
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?
Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw?
Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow?
Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?

 

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