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Drouth-Stricken Area Drouth-stricken area is an oil on canvas painting
made by Alexandre Hogue in 1934. This painting is located and own by the Dallas Museum of
Arts in Dallas Texas. In this painting we can see something unusual, it seem like there
is a town or a ranch that is being eaten by the sand and becoming into a huge dessert.
I think this action just start to happen a few day or week ago because the house is almost
cover by the sand. Also in the middle right of the painting it look like there were more
houses that are fully cover by the sand. In this landscape we can see that there still
life in it, at the far away of the painting there still a building that looks kind of
like a factory because it looks like smoke is coming out of it, so we can tell that people
still working at it. Also there still a starving cow that is looking for water or waiting for
it to come and that more likely would never appears. An equally patient buzzard awaits
the cow's death that will probably happen really soon since there is nothing to eat
or drink for the cow and we can already see the cow's rims.
In this landscape at the horizon, it looks like a huge sand-storm is coming, it looks
to be rally big because it covers most of the sky, but it seems to be far away from
the house and we can prove that by looking at the windmill which is not moving at all.
Base in the period this painting was made, I could tell that it talks about the disaster
that happens in the United States in the 1930's called the Dust-Bowl which later on I could
prove it by reading the description of the painting.
The Dust-Bowl was a disaster that occurred in the 1930's where everything was cover by
huge dust-storms and this painting is a clear example of it. According to the description
of the painting at the Dallas Museum of Art "Alexande was meant to draw attention to the
actual conditions in the Midwest."