[1][2] The art gallery had started by Albert Waalkens in the stable of his farm in 1962, where artists and their families mainly from the Randstad could also shelter.

It started in ten statues in 1963 around the village of Finsterwolde, and evolved the 1967 exhibition along the public road with 200 sculptures by 63 artists.

In 1988 the art curator Poul ter Hofstede in cooperation with the Groninger Museum published a retrospective on the gallery with a chronological listing of the exhibitions.

[4] In the year 2000 Waalkens was awarded the Benno Premsela Prize by the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts for his stimulating attitude towards artists.

[5] In 2017 the Stichting Beeldlijn completed a new documentary about the gallery and visual art in Groningen, entitled Boer tussen kunst en koren.