445. Tenant Farmer - Andrew Wyeth - 1961 - Delaware Art Museum

I grew up the Midwest, not the Northeast. I've never been to rural areas of New England either. Yet I know this scene. That deer is awaiting a dressing and bleeding out. My uncle just shot it, from the deer blind two acres off. That's my grandparents' house. Grandpa, by noon already half in the bag, is done hunting for the day. Grandma's inside, puffy white hair, t-shirt, long skirt, busied by women's work.