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Stone City, Iowa is a 1930 painting by the American artist Grant Wood.It depicts the former boomtown of Stone City, Iowa.It was Wood's first major landscape painting. It is a study of a real place with which Wood was thoroughly familiar, but the landscape has been given fantastical curvy shapes, the trees are ornamental, and the bright surfaces are artificially patterned.
Artists of the Stone City Art Colony, 1932 An artist at his easel, 1932 The Stone City Art Colony was an art colony founded by Edward Rowan, Adrian Dornbush, and Grant Wood . The colony gathered on the John A. Green Estate in Stone City, Iowa during the summers of 1932 and 1933.
Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942) was an American artist and representative of Regionalism, best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. He is particularly well known for American Gothic (1930), which has become an iconic example of early 20th-century American art .
Category: Paintings by Grant Wood. 13 languages. ... Stone City, Iowa (painting) This page was last edited on 30 May 2018, at 04:26 (UTC). Text ...
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Arnold Comes of Age won the grand prize, and his painting Stone City, Iowa won the landscape category. [ 5 ] Arnold Comes of Age was displayed in a 1940 Nebraskan show alongside Stone City, Iowa and John B. Turner, Pioneer , [ 14 ] a portrait of the father of his patron David Turner that Wood completed in 1929–30. [ 15 ]
Paintings by Grant Wood (7 P) Pages in category "Grant Wood" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Stone City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jones County, Iowa, United States. Stone City began as a company town for the workers of the local quarries. Stone City is known for its Anamosa Limestone quarries, historic limestone architecture, and 1930s art colony. Its population was 186 persons in the 2020 census.