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Grant WoodThe Young Artist1926
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"The Young Artist" is an oil on panel painting made in 1926 by Grant Wood. The work is signed lower right, "Grant Wood". The painting size is 11 x 14 x 1 inches. The framed size is 20 1/4 x 23 1/2 x 4 inches.
This work has a sterling provenance having been held in the family of the artist since its creation. The scholar Dr. Henry Adams has said this painting ranks as "among the very finest and most engaging early works" by Wood. Inclusion of debris in the paint indicates that the work was painted en plein air.
This work was created while the artist was in his mid-30s, thus the title "The Young Artist" might be tongue-in-cheek. Painted in the fall of 1926, Wood had just returned from his final summer in Paris and had entered a mature period in his oeuvre. The soft brushstrokes in this work are reminiscent of his early impressionist style, but the stronger line work and geometry shows the development toward his mature style.
Provenance:
Grant Wood Private Collection
Collection of his sister Nan Wood (American Gothic)
Collection of Nan Wood’s Niece
Collection of Nan Wood’s Grand Niece
Literature:
James M. Dennis, An Essay into Landscapes:The Art of Grant Wood, Kansas State University, 1972, p. 87, illustrated p. 92
- Creator:Grant Wood (1891 - 1942, American)
- Creation Year:1926
- Dimensions:Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 14 in (35.56 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Palm Desert, CA
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Grant Wood
One of the major American Regionalist painters along with Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry, Grant Wood was born in Anamosa, Iowa, and spent his childhood in Cedar Rapids. Unlike Curry and Benton, he never moved East but remained in the Middle West where he found inspiration for his paintings of prosperous farms and people reflecting idealized American values. However, his work was set apart from many regionalists in that provoked both laughter and social indignation. A good example Daughters of Revolution, 1932, depicting the aloof smugness of women who regarded themselves as emblematic of the country's founding values This painting was a retaliation by Wood against DAR members who had criticized him for completing their window in Germany instead of America. Much of his satire was good natured and humorous. For two summers, Wood attended the Minneapolis School of Design and Handicraft and Normal Art as a student of Ernest Batchelder, and he had brief times of study at Iowa State University and the Art Institute of Chicago from 1913 to 1916. After World War I, he taught high school art in Cedar Rapids. Asserting that he "had to go to France to appreciate Iowa," he had several trips abroad, and in 1923 enrolled in the Academie Julian in Paris, but he determined to make his life in Iowa because "all the really good ideas I'd ever had came to me while I was milking a cow." In 1932, he was co-founder of the Stone City Art Colony and Art School and he became director of the Public Works Art Project in Iowa. He was also an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Iowa. His work can be divided into two periods, the first being views of Cedar Rapids, other landscapes including scenes of Europe, and a few portraits. However, in 1928, his work changed when he traveled to Munich to oversee the making of a stained-glass window for the Cedar Rapids Veterans Memorial Building commissioned by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Seeing the severe, austere new style of painting in Germany combined with work from the late Gothic period, he developed a unique new style of his own that treated mid-western subjects with Gothic overtones, satire, and caricature. In 1930, he produced his first major landscape painting, Stone City, that had exaggerated perspective and unique naive treatment. From that time, his paintings had a simple innocence and fantasy that transported the viewer into another world, often that of a child. He also did many murals and a few lithographs, completing nineteen between 1937 and 1942, the year he died of cancer at age 50 in Iowa City. Sources include:
Matthew Baigell, Dictionary of American Art
Michael David Zellman, 300 Years of American Art
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