American

Grant Wood

U.S. 1891-1942
Study for Stone City 65.0004

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Stone City is best known as the site of Wood's short-lived art colony, where he headed a small group of teachers (including his friend Marvin Cone) and students for two summers in 1932 and 1933. This plein-air study, loosely painted, flattens the landscape while its high horizon line forces us to negotiate our way past the houses and up the road. The outlines of the trees have been done by scratching through the paint probably with the end of the brush. Wood simplified the composition and added considerable detail to the finished painting.

 

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