Art, literature & history
Loading Hay
1926
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- drypoint
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 14.3 x 11.7 cm (5 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1942.912
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Edwin Kaufman. Loading Hay. Edwin Kaufman; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift of Robert Hays Gries. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Loading Hay — Edwin Kaufman. 1926.
Medium: drypoint. Dimensions: Platemark: 14.3 x 11.7 cm (5 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
In this image, two laborers are at work, but beyond the few hints of windows on either side of the figures, the location remains unidentifiable. The lack of a defined setting in this print is unusual in Edwin Kaufman’s work, which usually includes landscapes that extend to the margins of his plate. The dominating blank space here emphasizes the action of the laborers and the bulk of their cart.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.