Midwest Artists
Descriptors of the Midwest physical landscape, characteristics of the people here, how living here makes you feel… Cold Grassland Flat Farming Cowboys Boring Friendly Small towns People talk a lot Gossip Drama
Regionalists
Grant Wood American Gothic, 1930
Grant Wood Stone City, 1930
In making these paintings, as you may have guessed, I had in mind something which I hope to convey to a fairly wide audience in America -- the picture of a country rich in the arts of peace; a homely lovable nation, infinitely worth any sacrifice necessary to its preservation. - Grant Wood, in a statement accompanying his final painting
Thomas Hart Benton Hailstorm, 1940
Thomas Hart Benton Mural
Midwest Artists
Malcolm Cochran Field of Corn, 1994
Oscar Howe Creation of Weotanica
Oscar Howe Eagle Dancer,
Harvey Dunn The Prairie is My Garden, 1950
Harvey Dunn Old Settlers