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A demonstration of the Plinth theme for Omeka S: the museum and its collection are fictional, and the images were made with AI. About this site
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Irrigation Ditch

A gouache painting of a straight narrow silver irrigation ditch receding to a high horizon between two green alfalfa fields under a low summer evening sky, flattened forms, visible paper texture. View larger
Irrigation Ditch

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Title
Irrigation Ditch
Description
A strip of silver water running straight away from the viewer between two fields of alfalfa. Hollis called it the only straight line in the valley.
Creator
June Hollis painting in the Paulsen orchard, 1984. A slightly faded color photograph from the 1980s of a woman painter in her forties in a straw sun hat, sitting on a folding stool at the edge of an apple orchard in autumn, painting in gouache on a small board resting on her knees, a jar of water at her feet.June Hollis
Date
1986
Type
Painting
Medium
Gouache on paper
Extent
57.2 × 38.1 cm (22½ × 15 in.)
Provenance
Gift of the artist, 2008
Identifier
2008.11.7
Subject
Farms
Summer
Landscapes
Rights
Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka S demo. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).

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June Hollis. “Irrigation Ditch.” 1986. Wrenfield Museum of Art. https://demo.refbytes.com/s/wrenfield/item/946 (accessed October 16, 2026).

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