Hedda Sterne, Combine, 1961, Oil and spray paint on canvas, 34 x 26 inches, Collection of Deere & Co. | Image provided as courtesy of Deere & Co.
The Des Moines Art Center will present “Hedda Sterne: Imagination and Machine,” January 10 - April 5, 2020. This exhibition will feature seven rarely seen painting by Sterne commissioned by Fortune magazine and published in their July 1961 issue. The painting served as a visual profile of Deere & Co., created after Sterne’s tour of the company’s factories in Illinois and Iowa. The depictions of tractor parts and mechanical tools are Sterne’s effort to “understand not how they work, but how they are.”
Learn more:
https://www.desmoinesartcenter.org/exhibitions/hedda-sterne