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Art historian Sam Hunter described the Agricola series as "an abrasive, unadorned art brut of laconic gesture, almost no discernible style, and yet of an extraordinary lyric intensity." The Independent stated that the Agricola series depicts "primitive figures seem on their way to work the land, but it is hard to tell where the farmers end and where their tools begin." In a 1982 review of the National Gallery exhibition, The New York Times called the Agricola series "elegantly wrought" and as "giving everyday forms a metaphorical unity,"
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