Grant Wood

Original--Recto:signed in pencil under image on right:Grant Wood Verso:In pencil in LR:1986.241.2

Marks: Partial Watermark:RIV[ES]

Label: Accompanying label on verso of mat:"JULY FIFTEENTH"/A LIMITED EDITION Signed Original Lithograph/By GRANT WOOD/Briefly concerning the artist-/Grant Wood has become world-famed for his ability to use American subject matter in an original fashion.Wood confines himself to the quieter and more stable aspects of American life.Grant Wood is a pioneer in the movement to enrich the cultural soil of America by establishing llocal centers of production in art.Long before the Federal Government entered the art field he had experimented with a colony of students at Stone City, Iowa.He has sent hundreds of artists back to the farm and to Main Street.In 1930 the artist received the Harris Cedar Rapids Art association."American Gothic"is in the Art Institute of Chicago.Other of his works are in the Lincoln, Nebraska Art Association; the Art Institute of Omaha, Nebraska; Dubuque, Iowa Art Association.In the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York are drawing