A guide to key strands in early 20th-century American painting, from industrial landscapes and rural vistas to Paris and abstraction. Featuring works offered in Modern American Art on 17 April 2025.

Explore the limestone and the landscapes that inspired Iowa's best-known artist. With patchwork farm fields and limestone bluffs, the vistas along the Grant Wood Scenic Byway are a source of ...

Pitt said Wood's portraits probably also would bring several million dollars, but it's the landscapes that have reached the popular imagination. "If someone wants a quintessential Grant Wood ...

“Young Corn,” an idyllic landscape, speaks to Wood’s rural upbringing. “Grant Wood was very much a champion of the Midwest,” Ulmer says. “He believed there was a lot of subject matter ...

The certification of the Grant Wood historic landscape, Burke said, was instrumental in the successful effort in 2002 and 2003 to deter the establishment by Bluestem Solid Waste Agency of a ...

What do we see in the work? Like several paintings by Grant Wood, Landscape portrays the sort of gently rolling terrain characteristic of eastern Iowa. There’s a river with a bridge and a road ...

Grant Wood remains one of America's most acclaimed ... is less persuasive when discussing Wood's landscapes. His frequent interpretation of hills and furrows as male buttocks, and corn stalks ...

They include the Magic Realist landscapes from the early 1930s ... a pedestrian lounge and ottoman from 1938, marketed as the Grant Wood Lounge by a Cedar Rapids furniture maker.

leaving a vision of a dark tree against a rolling green landscape. The lithograph is included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s retrospective of the artist’s career, “Grant Wood ...

Featuring many of Wood's classic paintings depicting the landscapes of rural America in the 1920s and 1930s, the exhibition will include about 130 works. To commemorate the Grant Wood art leaving ...