JIN ZHILIN
(b. 1928) Beijing, China

"A Field After Harvest" 1955
oil on wood, 8" x 13 3/8"

Painted at a Hebei collective farm during the agriculture collectivization campaign. Jin was sent to document the implementation of this important agricultural policy referred to as “socialist transformation,” when China was making a transition from privately owned farms to larger collectively managed agricultural enterprises before the more radical establishment of people’s communes that began in 1957.