Photos: The paintings of Douglas Eames and the working models Tom Brunner's farm machinery
The works are on display through Jan. 3 at the Driftless Historium in Mount Horeb.
A Country Christmas at the Driftless Historium
Model tractors and farm implements by Thomas Brunner, of Verona, who died in December 2020, are on display along with oil paintings by Douglas Eames, of Barneveld, as part of a "A Country Christmas: An Artistic Tribute to American Farm Life" at the Driftless Historium in Mount Horeb.
A Country Christmas at the Driftless Historium
Model tractors and farm implements made by Thomas Brunner, who passed away December 2020, are on display along with paintings by Douglas Eames as part of the exhibit at the Driftless Historium in Mount Horeb.
A Country Christmas at the Driftless Historium
Douglas Eames of Barneveld, talks about his large scale oil paintings that are on display as part of the exhibit "Country Christmas: An Artistic Tribute to American Farm Life" at the Driftless Historium and Mount Horeb Area Historical Society in Mount Horeb.
A Country Christmas at the Driftless Historium
Destinee Udelhoven, executive director of the Driftless Historium and Mount Horeb Area Historical Society, at a new exhibit "A Country Christmas: An Artistic Tribute to American Farm Life" in Mount Horeb.
A Country Christmas at the Driftless Historium
Douglas Eames began painting in his late 40s and prefers large-scale works that allow for more detail. His paintings, drawn from his life on a beef cattle farm near Mineral Point, are part of "A Country Christmas: An Artistic Tribute to American Farm Life" at the Mount Horeb Area Historical Society's Driftless Historium.
A Country Christmas at the Driftless Historium
Paul Brunner looks over some of the scaled models of horse-drawn farm implements made by his father, Tom Brunner. The pieces, on display at the Driftless Historium, help tell the story of Wisconsin agriculture.
A Country Christmas at the Driftless Historium
Michael Brunner shows off the detail of a working model of a threshing machine made by his grandfather, Tom Brunner. Several of Tom Brunner's pieces are part of the Driftless Historium's exhibit that helps tell the story of Wisconsin agriculture.
A Country Christmas at the Driftless Historium
Michael Brunner is often in awe at the working models of farm machinery made by his grandfather, Tom Brunner. Here Michael shows off a two-row, self-powered corn picker that is part of an agricultural exhibit through Jan. 3 at the Driftless Historium in Mount Horeb.
A Country Christmas at the Driftless Historium
Paul Brunner walks by oil paintings by Douglas Eames that are on display at the Driftless Historium. The exhibit includes model tractors and farm implements made by Brunner's father, Thomas.
A Country Christmas at the Driftless Historium
Model tractors and farm implements made by Thomas Brunner, who passed away December 2020, are on display as part of the exhibit "Country Christmas: An Artistic Tribute to American Farm Life" at the Driftless Historium and Mount Horeb Area Historical Society in Mount Horeb.
A Country Christmas at the Driftless Historium
Douglas Eames, 80, near a painting that depicts his family around the kitchen table of their farmhouse near Mineral Point. A younger Eames is seen at left in the painting. Eames, who now has a studio in Barneveld, has drawn on his life on a farm to create his oil paintings on canvas.
Tom Brunner
Brunner
A Country Christmas at the Driftless Historium mixes the paintings of Douglas Eames and the model farm machinery of Tom Brunner.
