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STONE CITY
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STONE CITY. In the 1933 Stone City, near Anamosa, Iowa was offering its second summer of serious art instruction from such famed artists as Grant Wood and Marvin Cone. Once a circus performer, Dennis Burlingame of Dubuque was marked as a "discovery" in 1932 of Chicago art patroness, Increase Robinson.
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"Dubuquers Have Part in Colony," Telegraph-Herald, May 21, 1933, p. 6
