Word: plowmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Businessmen they drink my wine Plowmen dig my earth...
...every daylight hour outdoors, for in one Mountainville summer alone, he turned out 50 watercolors, plus drawings and oils. He painted everything from sheep grazing in a distant field to grizzled guides, husky young trappers, beguiling children and young shepherdesses. Sometimes-no one knows quite why-he dressed his plowmen and shepherdesses in costumes of the 18th century. But for the most part, Homer was faithful to what he saw-a boy and girl climbing over an old stile, a young girl seeking a scrap of shade, a lone woodsman affectionately stroking the bark of a tree, or a guide...