Life — April 22, 1920 — page 22: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a silhouette illustration showing a farmer guiding a horse-drawn plow across furrowed ground. The image appears to be titled "The Plowshare" (visible at bottom). The cartoon likely represents agricultural labor or rural American life. The silhouette style emphasizes the worker's labor against an expansive sky. Given Life magazine's satirical nature, this could be commenting on farmers' conditions, agrarian economics, or the dignity of manual work—though without additional context or visible captions, the specific satirical point remains unclear. The stark black-and-white silhouette style was common in early 20th-century editorial illustration for conveying symbolic or political meaning about working-class subjects.