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Farmers Market
© Ron Backer

(oil, 15" x 30")

$2400

Street markets in the early 1900's, as well as today, was a place where the farmers brought their produce, where one could purchase fruit, vegetables, plants, trees and flowers. The city and country folks traded and did a whole lot of visiting.

Working the Bundle Racks
© Ron Backer

(oil, 22" x 28")

$2800

The threshing machine era was a time when community effort was a necessity and independence had to wait for the combine. Grain binders cut the grain, tied it into bundles, and dropped them in the field where they were stacked in shocks to finish drying.
Quite often, only one man in the community owned a threshing machine. He would travel from one farm to the next and the entire neighborhood exchanged work. Several farmers would come with their teams and racks to haul the bundles to the threshing machine where the grain was separated from the straw. Wagons with tight boxes would haul the grain to the granary for storage.
Many long hard hours went into the threshing and the women were just as busy preparing food to feed the hungry men.
 

Let the Night Begin
© Ron Backer

(oil, 12" x 24")

$2100

Suppose, just suppose, that the north side of Sixth Street between Phillips and Main in Sioux Falls, had been developed with business shops instead of warehouses. Ron painted this visualization of his imaginative wonderment of "what if".

Easter Bonnets
© Ron Backer

(oil, 16" x 21")

$2200

The pleasures of a special occasion includes the selection of the correct hat. Easter Sunday was always special and not to be taken lightly. Some say that in this day and age there is no longer any occasions to wear a hat. This is a mistaken belief. The occasions are still there but we no longer give these occasions the distinction they once had.