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Midwest Artists
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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
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Regionalists
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Grant Wood American Gothic, 1930
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Grant Wood Stone City, 1930
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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
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Thomas Hart Benton Hailstorm, 1940
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Thomas Hart Benton Mural
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Midwest Artists
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Malcolm Cochran Field of Corn, 1994
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Oscar Howe Creation of Weotanica
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Oscar Howe Eagle Dancer, 1953-57
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Harvey Dunn The Prairie is My Garden, 1950
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Harvey Dunn Old Settlers
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