Trompe l'oeil, in Germany

Though the poster claimed it, others say it's by Peter Böhringer, and is in Oldenburg, Germany.

(where I saw it on facebook)

A character

Jodi Stinebaugh sent this. The credit says:

"Coskun Cokbulan
my art work.............🙄

and according to Facebook, the person lives in Turkey.

In May, 2022, Kat Gray sent a variant:

Greeting cards

Wheelbarrows are good objects for art or photos. I went looking for more of some cards I only have 36 of thinking, I might use them for Christmas next year. I found lots of other cards; not those.

1 - 72 of 1,649 wheelbarrow greeting cards for sale

Over 1600 with wheelbarrows, at one site. If you feel like looking at photos there, here are a couple I liked:

Mural of produce, image of wheelbarrow

Laurie McPherson saw this on a New Mexico gardening page on facebook and sent it to me. I'm in New Mexico, too. But the art and artist are in England.

Good gourd almighty! Stunning seasonal display of pumpkins and squashes set to wow the crowds

That was the replacement title for what's in the URL, it seems, which was the more staid "Halloween 2011, Pumpkin squash display wows crowds. Slindon, West Sussex."

Medieval, with flowers, painted

"Virgin and Child on a Crescent Moon in the Rothschild Prayerbook, c. 1500–1520" is the description of the lefthand page, and that is by Gerard David, who may or may not have done the wheelbarrow on the next page.

Allotment wheelbarrows, real and imagined

The logo of an allotment society. Janine Davies sent it. Their whole site with the Covid-19 rules is pretty interesting: Photos Janine took:

Austin Whole Foods, once up on a time

This isn't new, but I missed it when it was new! Heather Booth sent this, from Whole Foods at the Demain, in Austin:

Garden Art, Scotland

Pamela Grace is an artist in Scotland, making pen and watercolor images of gardens, old greenhouses, gates, laundry lines hung between apple trees—beautiful things. Her site is a comfort to visit.


Wheelbarrow Washing


September in the Walled Garden

My friend Brie found and sent the first wheelbarrow. I found the other two as I relaxed into the collection. (It might be that same first green one and a companion wheelbarrow, in the second piece.)

There are several places on the site where the artist describes her process and methods. She is mixing her own inks, so that even the inked layer is not monochromatic.

I make a range of limited-edition original prints using solar-plate etching techniques . I use traditional oil-based inks mixing blues and burnt umber to create individual dark tones which are both strong and subtle. I print on to high quality traditional printing papers. Some prints I hand-colour with watercolour.

Please visit her site: http://www.pamelagrace.co.uk/
Her art is displayed variously in Dumfries and Galloway, where she lives, and has shown elsewhere.

Same wheelbarrow twice

In 1987, David Roybal took this photo of Lucia and Ricardo Medina in their yard at Llano de San Juan at the feet of the Rockies southeast of Taos. I saw the image and wrote to ask if I could use it here. David let me know that it was one of his favorites, of the photos he took in those days as a newspaper journalist, and added, "My wife, Marlene, likes it, too. So much so that she painted the image," and gave me permission to use both!

I've shared photos, and paintings, but this is the first time both appear together.




Marlene cheered them up, made their truck a beautiful green, and gave us a better view of the wheelbarrow!



David and I went to the same high school. He was a year older, and became a journalist.

The photo above appears in David's fifth book, published this year, called New Mexico Stories: Truths, Tales and Mysteries from Along the Río Grande

Wheelbarrows on the ceiling

In a cafe, near Mt. Jiri in South Korea, wheelbarrows turned into lighting fixtures:

Back entrance—the wall opens up so the mountains can be seen.



Yellow wheelbarrows, a tom-tom, some buckets, and I don't know what else.






Front:



This was spotted (and discussed briefly, by city boys who didn't live around wheelbarrows) in a program called "Master in the House," a reality show (sort of) which they call a variety show, but is more like an interview program in a way. Anyway, wheelbarrows.

Orangutans in Indonesia

Avantgardens. Back To The Wild
Wheelbarrowing orangutans at the International Animal Rescue center in Ketapang, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
These baby orangutans are being cared for at this center, and are being taken by wheelbarrow from their night cages to a forest play area where they will spend their day learning skills to survive in the wild.

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A similar image appeared here in June 2014
I'm repeating that post, because Laurie McPherson who made the comment below also sent me the photo above.

I don't know which came first, the photo, the painting, or whether it's common practice in zoos to cart the babies this way.

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Kristiva Stack send me a link to this image and wrote:

Hi Sandra, I saw this and thought of you. It's a mural by Ernest Zacharevic that I saw here: http://www.thisiscolossal.com

It would be so cool to come across this in person. You would have to be in Malaysia. :-)

Laurie McPherson posted a photo of that for me in January 2016, and wrote "It's not a barrel of monkeys ... it's a BARROW of apes." Nice.

Elmo and a wheelbarrow

No memory of where it came from, sorry. But it's Sesame-Street official!

Retired flamingo and wheelbarrow

In New Zealand, a pink flamingo hides its head beneath a wall-mounted wheelbarrow.

Thanks, Cally Brown for the photo, and Jo Isaac for connecting me with it.

Pistachio shell?

Scene by Kirsty Elson, in Cornwall. Sent to me by Caren Knox, who wrote, "Looks like a pistachio shell wheelbarrow!"

Click the image or artist's name for more images.

Wheelbarrow Art, Australia

Sandra, I thought of you when I saw the wheelbarrow shields by Eric Bridgeman.

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These were at a museum or gallery in Southbank, Victoria, in late 2016; not sure if they're still there.

Thank you, Donna Anderson, for sending these, and sorry they were lost in the shuffle for a while.

The Decorated Wheelbarrow Competition

Helen Soutar found this for me on Facebook. I've lifted the photos in case those don't stay there.

Bo King sketched a wheelbarrow

Years ago, Bo King "did a worksheet." Bo is a friend of my kids (of our family), and used to sit at our house and draw. He drew everywhere, but when he was here, I got to watch. I loved this, and the wheelbarrow is in the upper right, partway between the first wheel and the jet engine.

Two innies and an outie

Nancy Calhoun, of Stanley, New Mexico, has shared her three wheelbarrows. All are holding art today. Two are small and indoors. One is an full-sized outdoors wheelbarrow holding an exotic item used (we hear) by oceangoing fishermen. Stanley is about 850 miles from the Gulf of Mexico and about that, I think, from the Pacific. So a glass float is a thing of safe, dry, desert beauty.

Nuns in a wheelbarrow

Roman d’Alexandre, Tournai 1338-1344 (Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 22r)

Sent by Wendy Neathery-Wise, who found it here: discarding images (on facebook)

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I put "France" even though the book is in England, and even though Tournai isn't in France anymore. So I'll add England, too.
More about the manuscript for those who might care: Illuminating the Roman d'Alexandre: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264—The Manuscript as Monument, or lots more odd border images from medieval manuscripts: (on pinterest)

Wheelbarrow Tower in Cle Elum

Poem (which is the voice-over, and is great) by Eric Johnson

Imagine the surprise to those passing by,
the quizzical looks, the wondering why.
What's that in the woods on the edge of Cle Elum?
Would anyone believe ya if you dared even tell 'em?

The wheelbarrow's a rickshaw for dirt and debris,
a long shot for glory and immortality.
But there in the trees among pine cones and sparrows,
is a sky scraping tower of rusty wheelbarrows.

There was no master plan when he first stacked dirt carriers,
imagination and gravity his only true barriers.
Does he rent them? Does he steal them? Is he on the straight and narrow?
Does his old dog Hunter beg, steal and wheel-barrow?

But he could only go so far without pushing his luck,
what the stacker really needed was a big fire truck.
And then just this morning, like a gift dropped from heaven,
came the big ladder truck from fire district seven.

Of all the great towers in all this great world,
we should remember and try to be mindful.
Spectacular feats of engineering and vision,
Babel, and Pisa, Eiffel.

But when they ask you to name the greatest of towers,
made by kings, czars or pharaohs,
Be sure to tell 'em,
'bout the one in Cle Elum,
Known simply as "Tower Wheelbarrows"

And when the stacking is done
and the stacker grows old,
there will be no sad goodbye.
He'll look up for a while then Stephen will smile,
and climb his wheelbarrow stairway to the sky.

-Eric Johnson