Grain Elevator, Kansas
Medium
Painting
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Ford Motor Company
Accession Number
1966.36.106
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Grain Elevator, Kansas** by Robert Johnson captures the stark beauty of America's agricultural heartland in this undated painting from the Smithsonian American Museum. Towering grain elevators, essential for storing and transporting harvested crops like wheat, dominate the composition, evoking the vast plains of Kansas—a state synonymous with farming and resilience. Subtle nods to sunflowers and farm machinery in the scene highlight the rhythms of rural life, where human ingenuity meets the endless horizon. Painted in an unspecified medium, the work reflects the enduring fascination with in...