Grant Wood

Original--Recto:signed in pencil under image on right:Grant Wood Verso:in pencil in LL corner:78.172

Label: Accompaning label from Associated American Artists:"DECEMBER AFTERNOON"/A LIMITED EDITION Signed Original Lithograph/By GRANT WOOD/Briefly concerning the artist--/Grant Wood has become world-famed for his ability to use American subject matter in an original fashion.Wood confines himself to the quieter and more stable aspects of American life.Grant Wood is a pioneer in the movement to enrich the cultural soil of America by establishing local centers of production in art.Long before the Federal Government entered th art field he had experimented with a colony of students at Stone City, Iowa.He has sent hundreds of artists back to the farm and to Main Street.In 1930 the artist received the Harris bronze medal from the Art Institute of Chicago.Two of his important works, "woman with Plants" and "Doorway at Periguex" are to be found at the Cedar Rapids Art Association."American Gothic" is in the Art Institute of Chicago.Other of his works are in the Li