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We found still more Wood lore at The History Center, the year-old Linn County Historical Society museum ... west on Iowa Highway 64 (part of the Grant Wood Scenic Byway) into Anamosa.
Explore the limestone and the landscapes that inspired Iowa's best-known artist ... Kohlsdorf] But first, we head to Anamosa, the birth place of Grant Wood, whose Depression era paintings ...
No one expected it to reach the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art ... spending a couple of days in eastern Iowa. Start at the Grant Wood Art Gallery in downtown Anamosa. The gallery reveals the history ...
The director of the program, a former museum curator with roots in Anamosa, has praised the sculpture as an important piece of "Grant Wood Country." More: Love in the dust: Iowa gravel cyclists ...
The Grant Wood Rest ... influence of Wood, a native son born Feb. 13, 1891 east of Anamosa, who lived most of his life in Cedar Rapids and died at the age of 51 in Iowa City.
Learn the impact of Grant Wood's hometown on his world-famous regionalist artworks. Learn the impact of Grant Wood's hometown on his world-famous regionalist artworks. Road Trip Iowa is available ...
The Grant Wood Art Gallery is a small museum devoted to the artist’s ... Of the towns I’ve wandered around in Iowa, Anamosa is definitely one of the most mysterious, not what I expected.
Edward Hopper is 'a really perfect trade-off” for the local Grant Wood pieces ... Other Iowa contributions came from Coe College and the Iowa Masonic Library & Museum in Cedar Rapids, the ...
Art scholars say that it was pretty much an open secret that Iowa’s most famous artist, Grant Wood (1891-1942), was gay. Davenport’s Figge Art Museum will welcome one of those scholars ...
DAVENPORT, Iowa – A rare Grant Wood sketchbook from 1929 is back in Davenport after it vanished from a museum about 50 years ago, the museum said. The 100-page sketchbook signed by Wood ...