Three Fates

Ed Willis Barnett

1959

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In his catalogue raisonné of Inness's work, Michael Quick describes the painting, writing, "On the right are two dismasted battleships, both aflame, the nearer one silhouetted by the brighter, explosive glow from the one behind it. In the rolling waves at the left, men escape in three rowboats. The conflagration lights up the foreground waves and the clouded night sky."
At the center of this circular, black and white print, a man wearing a hat, shirt, and pants harvests wheat with a scythe with multiple blades. Behind the field of wheat, nestled in the hills, are a group of farm buildings including three grain silos. At the bottom of the print is a small still life that includes implements related to farming including a water jug, a hay fork, a sickle, and a scythe.
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