
Property Sold to Benefit an Educational Foundation
Village Slums
Session begins in
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
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