Fleeing the German occupation of France, Léger arrived in New York in October, 1940. He lived on West 40th Street in Manhattan, and rented a cottage near Lake Champlain in upstate New York where he found nearby an abandoned, overgrown farm with a barn full of rusting machinery. Léger's American landscapes are usually filled with mechanical elements juxtaposed with the abundant and sometimes strange flora found in different parts of the country. In the present work the artist depicts this extraordinary natural bounty, which nevertheless served as a painful reminder of the deprivation and oppression suffered by his countrymen in war-torn Europe.