Grant Wood Art

Lithograph on wove paper 9 x 12 in. (image size) 12 5/8 x 19 1/8 in. (sheet size) Signed lower right Edition of 250 Published by Associated American Artists (AAA), New York This ite...

Grant Wood, 'July Fifteenth, 1938', lithograph, edition 250, 1938, Cole 5. Signed in pencil. A superb impression on off-white wove paper, with full margins (1 3/16 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 9 x 11 7/8 inches; sheet size 11 3/4 x 15 7/8 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Printed by master lithographer George C. Miller. Published by Associated American Artists, New York, in 1938. Reproduced and Exhibited: 'American Master Prints from the Betty and Douglas Duffy Collection', the trust for museum exhibitions Washington, D.C., 1987; 'Pressed In Time: American Prints 1905-1950', Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, 2007. Impressions of this work are in the following museum collections: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Des Moines Art Center, Detroit Institute of Arts, Harvard Art Museums, Huntington Library Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Smithsonian America Art Museum, Sioux City Art Center, Whitney Museum of American Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST Grant Wood (1892- 1942) was born in Anamona, Iowa, and lived for ten years on a farm in that area. When his father died in 1901, his mother sold the farm and moved to Cedar Rapids, which was to remain the center of Wood’s world. Principally self-taught, Wood received his art education in a summer class at the Minneapolis School of Design, Handicraft and Normal Art; two years at the University of Iowa; and night school at the Art Institute of Chicago. He made several trips to Europe and studied briefly at the Académie Julien in Paris. Wood was cofounder of the Stone City Art Colony and Art School and was director of the Public Works of Art Project in Iowa from 1933-1934. On a trip to Munich in 1928 to supervise the execution of a stained glass window for the Cedar Rapids Veterans Memorial Building, he studied the northern Renaissance masters, whose crystalline realism and work with layered oil glazes influenced his highly-crafted style of painting. Wood’s other sources of inspiration were American folk paintings and nineteenth-century townscapes. The turning point in Wood’s career came in 1930 when he won a bronze medal at the Art Institute of Chicago for his painting American Gothic. The image received national recognition, and Wood became famous overnight. In 1937, Wood began making lithographs for the Associated American Artists. These works, imbued with the same humorous satire and meticulous craftsmanship that Wood employed in his paintings, are celebrated as iconic images of American Regionalism...

A very good impression of this lithograph. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York.

Grant Wood, 'Tree Planting Group', lithograph, 1937, edition 250, Cole 1. Signed and dated in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove pap...

Wood, Grant. APPROACHING STORM. Lithograph, 1940. Cole 19. 11 7/8 x 9 inches (304 x 230 mm). Published by Associated American Artists in an edition o...

GRANT WOOD (1891 - 1942) TREE PLANTING GROUP. 1937 (Cole 1) Lithograph as published by Associated American Artists. Signed and dated in pencil. Edition 2...

July Fifteenth, 1938 Lithograph on paper under glass; Associated American Artists, New York, pub. Edition of 250, hand signed lower right: Grant Wood Image: 9" H x 12" W Literature:...

GRANT WOOD ( 1891 - 1942) SULTRY NIGHT, 1939 (Cole 6) Lithograph, signed in pencil. Edition 100. In very good condition, Image 9 x 11 3/4 inches, sheet slightly trimmed being 11 1/2...

Artist: Grant Wood Medium: Lithograph on paper Title: July 15th Year: 1938 Edition Size: 250 Sheet Size: 11 7/8" x 16" Reference: Cole 5 Signed: Signed in pencil Published by Associa...

Grant Wood (American, 1891 – 1942) Cover for “The Pulse” Magazine, February 1907 Signed with monogram, GDV, and graduation year ’10, center right Pen and ink on paper, laid down 18 ¾ x 12 ⅜ inches (47.6 x 31.4 cm) Provenance: The artist; from whom acquired by: Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Fennell, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1898-1985); his estate sale, Leslie Hindman, Chicago, 11 May 1986; where acquired by: Private Collection, Chicago; by whom consigned to: Thomas French Fine Arts, Akron, Ohio; from whom acquired in 2006 by: John C. Fitzpatrick, Iowa City, Iowa, and Eastport, Maine, 2006-2020 Sold for the benefit of the Tides Institute and Museum of Art, Eastport, Maine Long before there was American Gothic, before Paul Revere, Daughters of Revolution and Parson Weems’ Fable, before the rhythmic landscapes, witty and frightening character studies, and evocative lithographs of the Midwest, the precocious talent of Grant Wood was already in evidence. Wood was essentially self-taught, but precious little of his earliest works survive. The beginnings of his artistic career are to be found at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids. There he and Marvin Cone...

Wood, Grant. APPROACHING STORM. Lithograph, 1940. Cole 19. 11 7/8 x 9 inches (304 x 230 mm). Published by Associated American Artists in an edition o...

Wood, Grant. TREE PLANTING GROUP. Lithograph, 1937. Edition of 250 published by Associated American Artists. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. 8 3/8 ...