Grant Wood's Iowa A visitor's guide
Book - 2013
Solving the problem of what to do while driving across the middle of America, this book identifies points of cultural interest along I-80 from Chicago to Omaha. In particular, Rose and Elliott provide a thoughtful, detailed exploration of the life and the historical context of Iowa artist Grant Wood, best known for his painting American Gothic, by discussing both his work and the landscape that inspired it. The book includes five itineraries, complete with self-guided museum tours, maps, color photos, and local ancillary attractions like regional art festivals and nature hikes.
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Woodstock, Vt. :
Countryman Press
[2013]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- xxiii, 112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9780881509922
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- How to Use This Book
- Grant Wood: Tormented Hero of the Heartland
- 1. Anamosa and Stone City: The Place of Origin and Return
- Antioch One-Room Schoolhouse
- Grant Wood Gallery and Visitor Center
- Anamosa State Penitentiary
- Riverside Cemetery
- Stone City Art Colony
- Today's Landscape
- 2. Cedar Rapids: Artistic Evolution
- Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
- Grant Wood Studio and Home
- Turner Mortuary
- Veterans Memorial Building Stained-Glass Window
- J. G. Cherry Plant
- Cedar Rapids Schools
- Coe College, Stewart Memorial Library
- Today's Landscape
- 3. Southeast Iowa: Life Struggles and the Search for Self
- Grant Wood's House
- Plum Grove Historic Home
- U of I Campus, Art Museum, and Art Department
- The Figge Art Museum
- American Gothic House
- Amish Community in Kalona
- The Amana Colonies
- Today's Landscape
- Farther Afield
- 4. AMES: Leadership in Public Art
- Parks Library: Grant Wood Murals and Christian Petersen Sculpture
- Morrill Hall and the Christian Petersen Art Museum
- Campus An Walk
- Memorial Union: Fountain and Veterans Memorial
- Post Office Murals
- Today's Landscape
- 9. Des Moines: Midwestern Ambitions and Legacy
- Birthplace of Herbert Hoover
- Prairie Buffalo Sanctuary
- Governors Mansion
- Iowa State Capitol
- Des Moines Art Center
- Today's Landscape
- Farther Afield
- The Future of Grant Wood's Iowa: Modem Transformations in Art and Land Stewardship in the Twenty-First Century
- Maps: Anamosa and Stone City
- Cedar Rapids
- Southeast Iowa
- Iowa City and Davenport
- Awes
- Des Moines
- Des Moines-Farther Afield
- Index