Painting
Logging Scene
| A two-man team of sawers work on a massive tree with a crosscut saw (right) while a man with an an axe waits to trim branches. The trunks are then cut down to a manageable size and maneuvered by peaveys and cant hooks (left). A pair of oxen pull the log, secured with chains to a sled, out of the snow-covered woods. |
| Image ID: | 2775 |
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| Creation Date: | date unknown |
| Creator Name: | Arneson, Carl |
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| Collection Name: | WHS Museum Collection |
| Genre: | Painting |
| Original Format Type: | paintings |
| Original Format Number: | Museum 1957.430 |
| Original Dimensions: | 24 x 20 inches |
| Artist Carl Arneson was born in 1877 to Norwegian immigrant parents in Sumner Township, Barron County, Wisconsin. As a young man, Arneson worked in the logging camps of Knapp, Stout & Company in northwestern Wisconsin. The 1900 census shows Carl as a farm laborer living with his parents and siblings in Sumner. Arneson described his experiences as a lumberjack and farmer and explained his painting in a 1957 letter to the Historical Society. |
| Oxen |
| Trees |
| Hats |
| Work clothes |
| Saws |
| Log transportation |
| Logging |
| Men |
| Lumberjacks |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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