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Cabbage Field

Date
1990, printed 2003
Classification
Photographs
Current Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image: 40 3/8 x 56 1/2 in. (102.6 x 143.5 cm)
sheet: 42 x 58 in. (106.7 x 147.3 cm)
framed: 57 1/8 x 72 x 1 7/8 in. (145.1 x 182.9 x 4.8 cm)
Credit Line
Funds given by the Honorable and Mrs. Thomas F. Eagleton
Rights
Simone Nieweg, VG Bildkunst.
Object Number
169:2003
NOTES
Green cabbages have gone to seed behind rows of purple cabbages in the foreground of this photograph. Simone Nieweg explores the German tradition of "Grabeland," a unique community gardening system practiced on the outskirts of urban centers. The particular subject of cabbage, a food often identified as a staple of the German diet, recurs throughout Nieweg’s work. The only evidence of this garden’s proximity to a modern city is the solitary housing complex nestled between two trees in the upper right corner of the composition.

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