Hard work

“Quarryman Joe Boston” (1930 oil on canvas), by Samuel Lewis Pullman (1900-1961), in the show “Hammers on Stone — The Granite Industry & Cape Ann,’’ at the Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., through Feb. 1. Stone quarrying was a major industry in parts of New England for hundreds of years.

The show explores the history, artistry and impact of Cape Ann's granite-quarrying industry through what the museum's calls its “extensive holdings of objects and archival materials related to the industry.’’

The granite went into roads, buildings and other construction all over the world.