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Property Sold to Benefit an Educational Foundation

Grant Wood

Village Slums

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May 20, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Bid

90,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property Sold to Benefit an Educational Foundation

Grant Wood

1891 - 1942


Village Slums

signed Grant Wood and dated © 1937 (lower left)

Conté crayon, gouache and pencil on paper

image: 20 ⅜ by 16 ⅛ in. 51.8 by 41 cm.

sheet: 26 ⅜ by 20 in. 67 by 50.8 cm.

Executed in 1937.

Associated American Artists, New York (acquired after 1939)

Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York (acquired by 2004)

Private Collection, Virginia (probably acquired from the above)

Leah and Richard Waitzer Foundation, Virginia (acquired as a gift from the above by 2019)

Acquired as a gift from the above by the present owner

Ames, Iowa State University, Brunnier Art Museum, Grand Wood’s Main Street: Art, Literature, and the American Midwest, 2004, p. 8, fig. 10, illustrated; pp. 13, 41, 43, 45, 52, 73, 95, 147 and 186, fig. 72, illustrated; p. 187, 193-95, fig. 75, illustrated; p. 197-200, 219-20, 232 and 238

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables, 2018, p. 169, pl. 79, illustrated in color; pp. 251 note 145 and 261

Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, Chicago, 1937, illustrated in color

Audrey Hamilton, “‘Wood Draws for ‘Main Street’: Iowa Artist Illustrates Special Edition Of Lewis’ Novel,” The Daily Iowan, 22 May 1937, p. 5 (titled City Slums)

The London Studio, vol. 15, February 1938, p. 93, illustrated

Earle Davis, “Grant Wood: He Painted America,” Kansas Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 4, Fall 1972, p. 10

Darrell Garwood, Artist in Iowa: A Life of Grant Wood, New York, 1971, pp. 204 and 209

James M. Dennis, Grant Wood: A Study in American Art and Culture, New York, 1975, pp. 122-23, fig. 115, illustrated; p. 240 note 21

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and The Art Institute of Chicago (and traveling), Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision, 1983-84, no. 143, pp. 114-15

Exh. Cat., Iowa, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Marvin D. Cone and Grant Wood: An American Tradition, 1989, p. 199