January
1940–1941
Grant Wood
Grant Wood (American, 1891–1942)
American Painting and Sculpture
January, 1940–1941. Grant Wood (American, 1891–1942). Oil on masonite panel; framed: 67 x 82.5 x 7.5 cm (26 3/8 x 32 1/2 x 2 15/16 in.); unframed: 45.7 x 60.1 cm (18 x 23 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2002.2 Art © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY For many years Wood maintained his painting studio on the property of a funeral home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
- Maker/Artist
- Wood, Grant
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on masonite panel
- Dimensions
- Framed: 67 x 82.5 x 7.5 cm (26 3/8 x 32 1/2 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 45.7 x 60.1 cm (18 x 23 11/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed and dated lower left: Grant Wood/1940
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 2002.2
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables, Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Fifty-Third Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture (29 October-10 December 1942), cat. no. 14. <br><br>New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision (16 June-4 September 1983); traveled to Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts (25 September 1983-1 January 1984); Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago (21 January-15 April 1984); San Francisco, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (12 May-12 August 1984), cat. no. 62, illus. p. 60, fig. no. 102. <br><br>Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (3/2/2018 - 6/10/2018): "Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables"
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
- Museum Location
- 226B American Modern
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