Frank Lloyd Wright viewed cows as picturesque elements of the Wisconsin landscape, famously joking in his 1932 essay Why I Love Wisconsin that the state should pass a law compelling farmers to pasture their cows near the highway where they make a fine picture. While Wright embraced “gentle Holsteins” as a picturesque part of the Wisconsin dairy landscape in his literary reflections, he famously preferred Guernsey cows for specific aesthetic visual contrasts on his own grounds, noting that the cream and coffee tones of Guernseys contrasted more pleasingly against green fields than the stark black-and-white pattern of Holsteins. So, it was somewhat confusing that hanging at Taliesin was this somewhat satirical painting.