拍品专文
According to the artist's wife, Sally Michel Avery, the present work "stemmed from a summer in Connecticut when we spent a great deal of time at a neighboring farm sketching cows, pigs, and other farm animals." (unpublished letter, January 23, 1985, as quoted in The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Art of the Western Hemisphere, vol. II, New York, 1988, p. 132)