After the Cows, with a boy chasing two animals, is probably the artist’s fond and rather "rose-colored" recollection of his youth in rural Cadmus, Kansas.
The painting is dominated by a brilliant pink sky and intensely green fields, with secondary colors of yellow, white, lavender, and brown. In the 1960s Blair began to use more pastel colors. The decorative quality and color of his late work accords with his nostalgic subject matter and may actually have been based on reality. Blair recalled that the Kansas grangers decorated their buildings in the colors of this painting: pink, green, and yellow.