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"Stone City, Iowa," Grant Wood, 1930.
Wood (1891-1942) was THE great American Regionalist painter. He's best known for "American Gothic" but so much else he did is worth looking at.
This painting of an idyllic village is actually a depiction of a town in transition. Stone City had been founded as a company town for a limestone quarry, but the limestone business declined with the rise of Portland cement, so the town shrank and shifted into agriculture. This is a fairly idealized scene showing the town now in harmony with its environment, and a place where Wood established an art colony for a couple of years.
Looks like the perfect landscape for an autumn drive...
From the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE.
#Art #AmericanArt #GrantWood #Regionalism #Iowa
Wood (1891-1942) was THE great American Regionalist painter. He's best known for "American Gothic" but so much else he did is worth looking at.
This painting of an idyllic village is actually a depiction of a town in transition. Stone City had been founded as a company town for a limestone quarry, but the limestone business declined with the rise of Portland cement, so the town shrank and shifted into agriculture. This is a fairly idealized scene showing the town now in harmony with its environment, and a place where Wood established an art colony for a couple of years.
Looks like the perfect landscape for an autumn drive...
From the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE.
#Art #AmericanArt #GrantWood #Regionalism #Iowa