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Farm Yard
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Mathias J Alten
Farm Yard by Mathias J. Alten brings the working textures of a Midwest farmstead into a hand-painted oil reproduction, its earthy palette and confident brushwork suited to quiet, lived-in rooms.
Description
Description
When Mathias J. Alten turned his attention to the working farms of the American Midwest, he was painting the world immediately around him, the barns, animals, and packed earth of a life lived close to the land. Farm Yard belongs to this period of quiet observation, when the artist set aside grand vistas in favour of a single contained space, a wall, a gate, a patch of trodden ground, and asked what honest looking could reveal about ordinary rural work.
About Farm Yard
The composition stays close to its subject. There is no distant horizon here, no sweeping field of wheat; instead the eye is drawn into the immediate architecture of the yard itself, its fences and outbuildings arranged with the same care a portrait painter might give a sitter. Light falls unevenly across the scene, catching the rough texture of wood and stone while shadow pools in the corners, and this interplay gives the picture its sense of a specific hour, a specific patch of weather. Alten builds the surface with confident, visible strokes, laying colour in rich, grounded tones that avoid the picturesque in favour of something closer to reportage.
This handling of paint, thick in places and thin in others, is part of what makes the work rewarding to live with, and it is exactly what a hand-painted oil painting reproduction is able to preserve. Rather than flattening the picture into a uniform printed surface, our artists rebuild it stroke by stroke in oil on canvas, matching the palette of Alten and keeping the ridges and textures that a screen or a giclee print inevitably erase. The result is a painted object with its own depth of colour, not a copy of one, and it carries forward the physical presence that made this a genuinely famous painting among collectors of American regional art.
The hand-painted reproduction
Hung in a study, a hallway, or a room that gets soft, indirect light through the afternoon, Farm Yard settles into its surroundings rather than demanding attention from across the room. It suits spaces with wood, leather, or worn textiles nearby, places where a quieter, working mood already lives. Over time it becomes less a picture you look at and more one you simply live alongside, changing gently with the light through the day.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, brushed by a trained artist rather than printed
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Gallery-ready presentation, ready to hang on arrival
- Certificate of authenticity included with every order
- Free worldwide shipping, with no shipping charge to any country
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
Empty walls flatten a room. A classical artwork restores structure and visual hierarchy. One painting defines the space, anchors furniture, and establishes identity.
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Real brushwork, layered oil paint, and durable pigments on museum-quality canvas.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
Framed — Ready to Hang
Select a handcrafted frame and we’ll deliver your painting fully assembled, protected, and ready to hang.
For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.
Stretched Canvas
Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
Gallery Wrap
Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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We ship with UPS, FedEx, or DHL straight to your door. You’ll receive a tracking number as soon as your order leaves our studio. Typical delivery is 4–5 business days after dispatch; large, framed, or stretched pieces may take longer depending on the safest shipping route.
Unframed canvases are protected with a film, carefully rolled, and secured inside a rigid shipping tube.
Stretched, Gallery Wrapped, and Framed paintings are wrapped, cushioned with foam protection, and boxed for safe transit.
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