A Year on a Farm The Seasonal Landscapes of Grant Wood

A Year on a FarmThe

Seasonal Landscapes

of

Grant Wood

I realized that all the really good ideas I’d ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

So I went back to Iowa. --Grant Wood--

Fall Plowing

What is going on here?

Are there any colors that make you feel hot or cold?

Where in the painting do your eyes focus?

What are the different parts of the painting?

What is in the front of the painting? How did the artist make it look like it was in the front?

What time of year is it? How can you tell?

Seed Time and Harvest

Near Sundown

January (Cornshocks)1937, lithograph9 by 11 7/8 in.

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture GardenUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska Art Association Collection

Jean Rathburn Faulkner Memorial1992.N-747

March

Young Corn

Arbor Day

Spring in the Country

Turning

Fertility

Landscape

Haying

July 15

Credits

This Power Point presentation created by Jamie Barnhill with valuable input from Karl Schaefer, Darlene Ryan and John Heffernan.

The works of Grant Wood displayed in this presentation are used with permission from:

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden

University of Virginia American Studies Program