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  • Collections Online: Grant Wood





    Grant Wood in his studio
    Grant Wood in his studio, 193-?

    Welcome to the Grant Wood Papers Online

    This site provides access to the papers of Grant Wood that were digitized in 2005 by the Archives of American Art. The papers have been scanned in their entirety, and total 73 images. VIEW COLLECTION

    The Grant Wood papers measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1930 to 1983. 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.

    All descriptive information found here is compiled from A Finding Aid to the Grant Wood Papers, 1930-1983, in the Archives of American Art.

    Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.



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