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Pottawattamie County Arts, Culture & Entertainment will hold a special screening of "Pictura: An Adventure in Art" tonight at 7 p.m. at the Hoff Family Arts & Culture Center.

For the 34th annual Tales Tombstones Tell, the West Chicago City Museum will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of the community as the Town of Turner.

Clothing worn by dead robber led to hideout near Amana

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Grant Wood Revealed: Cedar Rapids exhibition shows versatility of states most famous artist “The Coil Welder,” 1925, oil on canvas, 25 5/8 inches by 29 3/4 inches, is part of Grant Wood’s J.G. Cherry Series, “which I don’t think we’ve had completely up in years,” said Kate Kunau, associate curator at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. The paintings were created to display at trade shows, and were a gift to the museum from the Cherry Burrell Charitable Foundation. (Courtesy of the Ced...

Other Americas Fig. 1. Spring in Town by Grant Wood (1891–1942), 1941. Signed and dated “GRANT/ WOOD/ 1941” at lower center. Oil on wood, 26 by 24 ½ inches. Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana, © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Fig. 2. Wood in a photograph from 1941. Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa. Grant Wood’s mature career began in 1929, the year of the great stock market crash and the beginning of a decade of na...