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Oil on canvas; two Land Girls harvesting the fields in 1941 Britain, one arches her back in a stretch, the other leans on a rake handle and looks out over the rest of the field, they are ready to end the day; their pale skin has become tanned with long days in the sun; behind them the sun is setting, their jaunty kerchiefs holding back their hair, Cubism, Soviet Social Realism, in the style of Aleksandr Deyneka
The Women’s Land Army (WLA) was a critical British civilian organization during WWII to prevent food shortages by replacing the male farm laborers who had joined the military. Over 200,000 women—"Land Girls"—worked from sunrise to sunset in agriculture to keep the nation fed.
