Emma Prusch Farm, San Jose, Thursday 23, 2020

The Prusch family's 19th Century farm, donated by daughter Emma to the city of San Jose in 1962, is easily one of the most incongruous sites we visit: Ever present traffic on I-680 roars by (and almost above) the farm while at ground level, the old farmhouse, barn and rusty equipment (all pretty standard fare for an old farm) compete for our attention with handsome chickens, begging to be sketched or painted. Many of us obliged!

For more on the Prusch Family Farm please refer the following links:

pruschfarmpark.org
https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/Components/FacilityDirectory/FacilityDirectory/2180/2028?npage=5

For more photos of the Emma Prusch Farm Paintsite please check out Edward Rook's Flickr album:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/edwardrooks/albums/72157712808950821

Upcoming paintsites:  See the SCVWS website or the January and February Newsletters for details:

• Thursday, Jan 30, Don Edwards Environmental Education Center, Alviso

• Thursday, Feb 6, Arastradero Preserve Parking lot, Palo Alto

• Thursday, Feb 13, Santa Cruz Arboretum, Santa Cruz

• Thursday, Feb 20, San Mateo County Courthouse, Redwood City

• Thursday, Feb 27, TBD rain make up day

Artists and their artwork:

The 4-H barn at Emma Prusch Farm Park, San Jose's largest freestanding
livestock barn

Emma Prusch Farm gazebo

Brad with the Emma Prusch Farm's Victorian farmhouse
 in the distance

Brad's watercolor of the Victorian farmhouse ( Emma's home)

Edward's painting of the Ethel & William Prusch Multicultural Center

Edward and painting companion

Alison's sketches of chicken feet

Alison

Dick's watercolor silhouette of the farm

Dick

Annie's watercolor of a park visitor feeding the chickens

Annie

Mindy's watercolor of the Multicultural Center

Mindy

Sham's watercolor of the 4-H barn

Sham

Kaaren's watercolor of the Multicultural Center

Kaaren

A very green tractor by Liz

Indira's painting of the Livestock Barn

Kaaren and Indira

Elaine's watercolor sketches of the farm's roosters

Elaine

Laurie B's composition of chicken poses

Laurie B

Jane S's watercolor of the Emma Prusch Farmyard

Jane S, Paintsites Co-coordinator

Tanvi's watercolor sketches of farm roosters

Tanvi's watercolor of an retired tractor

Tanvi

Wanda's pastel of  the green tractor

Wanda

Salinda's watercolor of the white rooster

Salinda

Helen's painting of red rooster

Paintsite artists sharing their artwork

Paintsites group photo  

Paintsites second group photo including Edward