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Grant Wood, Spring in the Country, 1941, Oil on Masonite, 24 x 24 in. Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Museum purchase. 93.12

The CRMA occassionally loans works from its permanent collection to other museums for special exhibtions. Check back often to see where some of our works are currently on view.

Portrait of John B. Turner, Pioneer by Grant Wood

Grant Wood's painting Portrait of John B. Turner, Pioneer (1928-30) will be part of an exhibition entitled Face Forward: American Portraits from Sargent to the Present at the Vero Beach Museum of Art from February 2 through May 25, 2008. The exhibition will include approximately 60 works borrowed from public and private collections, and feature artists such as John Singer Sargent, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, Walt Kuhn, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and Grant Wood, to name a few. The exhibition traces the evolution of the portrait from its incarnation in the early twentieth century to its relevance and rebirth in the art today. For more information, please visit the Vero Beach Museum of Art website.

Spring in the Country by Grant Wood

Grant Wood's painting Spring in the Country (1941) will be part of an exhibition entitled "The New Man": Portrait of the 1930s at the National Gallery of Canada June 6 through September 7, 2008.