Other Americas - The Magazine Antiques
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 national introspection about what constituted the country’s core values and character. The instinct ...
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