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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 .
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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]
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The American Gothic House, also known as the Dibble House, is a house in Eldon, Iowa, designed in the Carpenter Gothic style with a distinctive upper window. [3] It was the backdrop of the 1930 painting American Gothic by Grant Wood, generally considered Wood's most famous work and among the most recognized paintings in twentieth century American art.
American Gothic is a 1930 oil on beaverwood painting by the American Regionalist artist Grant Wood.Depicting a Midwestern farmer and his daughter standing in front of their Carpenter Gothic style home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century and is frequently referenced in popular culture.