Wood, Grant, b. 1891 d. 1942

Grant Wood papers, 1930-1983

43 items (0.2 linear ft.)

Included are three newspaper obituaries for Grant Wood and six letters to art educator, Zenobia Ness, discussing his exhibition plans, paintings, Stone City Art Colony, and the Federal Public Works of Art Projects. The collection also contains two letters, including a Stone City brochure, to Walter Pritchard Eaton, Professor of Drama at Yale University. Also found are writings, newspaper clippings containing articles on Wood, and other printed material. Photographs in the collection, some of which are signed, are of Wood in his studio and at the Artist Camp at Stone City, and various works of art.

Seven scrapbooks dating from 1900-1962 were loaned for microfilming in 1975 by Nan Wood Graham, Grant Wood's sister. They were microfilmed on reel 1216 and returned. The originals are now located at the Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Davenport, Iowa.

The collection was donated by Zelia Mitchell, a friend of the Ness family, in 1984. The Archives microfilmed the collection upon receipt on reel 3176. The two letters to Eaton, with the enclosed Stone City Art Colony brochure, were donated by Charles E. Feinberg, 1955-1962 and filmed on reel D10. Seven scrapbooks were loaned for microfilming in 1975 (reel 1216) by Nan Wood Graham, Grant Wood's sister, and returned.

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• Collection has been partially digitized and is available on the Archives of American Art's website. Use of materials not digitized requires an appointment.
• The collection was partially digitized in 2005 and is available via the Archives of American Art's website.
  The scrapbooks that were microfilmed but not digitized are available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan on microfilm reel 1216.
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Also in the Archives:

• Return from Bohemia/: by Grant Wood, 1941
• Grant Wood scrapbooks, 1900-1962