1. A Year on a Farm The Seasonal Landscapes of Grant Wood

2. I realized that all the really good ideas I’d ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. So I went back to Iowa. --Grant Wood--

3. Fall Plowing

4. What is going on here?  Are there any colors that make you feel hot or cold?  Where in the painting do your eyes focus?  What are the different parts of the painting?  What is in the front of the painting? How did the artist make it look like it was in the front?  What time of year is it? How can you tell?

5. Seed Time and Harvest

6. Near Sundown

7. January (Cornshocks) 1937, lithograph 9 by 11 7/8 in. Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska Art Association Collection Jean Rathburn Faulkner Memorial 1992.N-747

8. March

9. Young Corn

10. Arbor Day

11. Spring in the Country

12. Turning

13. Fertility

14. Landscape

15. Haying

16. July 15

17. Credits This Power Point presentation created by Jamie Barnhill with valuable input from Karl Schaefer, Darlene Ryan and John Heffernan. The works of Grant Wood displayed in this presentation are used with permission from: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden University of Virginia American Studies Program