Grant Wood: From Farm Boy to American Icon ongoing with periodic changes

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Grant Wood, Woman with Plants, 1929, oil on Upson board, 20 ½ x 17 7/8 inches, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Museum purchase. 31.1
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Grant Wood, Spring in the Country, 1941, oil on Masonite, 24 x 22 1/8 in. Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Museum purchase. 93.12.
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Grant Wood, Mourner’s Bench, 1921-22, oak, carved and stained, 37 x 49 x 16 inches, on loan from the Cedar Rapids Community School District, L1.70.3.169.

Grant Wood: from Farm Boy to American Icon

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Grant Wood: From Farm Boy to American Icon examines how the major events in Wood’s life are reflected in his art: building a house for himself, his mother, and his sister in Cedar Rapids; working for the Cedar Rapids Community School District; moving into his studio home at 5 Turner Alley; and his four trips to Europe during the 1920s.  His last trip, when he traveled to Munich to help fabricate a large stained glass window for the Veterans Memorial Building, precipitated a major stylistic change from his American Impressionist paintings to the harder-edged style of his later work.