Barn Storm: Picturing a Midwestern Icon November 15, 2025 –November 1, 2026

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John Chehak, Untitled, undated, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, gift of Kate Hawkins, 2020.027.
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Grant William Thye, Barn, 2009, oil on canvas, 36 x 33 inches, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, museum purchase, the Charles Lamson Hoffman Family Fund, 2013.915.
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Helen Berggruen, Grazing, 2005, oil on canvas, 25 x 31 inches, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, museum purchase, 2006.022.

Barn Storm: Picturing a Midwestern Icon

November 15, 2025 –November 1, 2026

 

Barns are an iconic symbol of the Midwest.  This exhibition explores how they appear in works by artists in the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art collection.  Though they seem ubiquitous in art of this region, each work reveals its own unique take on the subject, demonstrating a wide variety of approaches.