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WOOD, Grant
WOOD, Grant. (Anamosa, IA, Feb. 13, 1892--Iowa City, IA, Feb. 12,1942). In 1934 Wood, a pioneer of the American Native Regionalist Style of painting, sold "Appraisal" for $350.00 and "Victorian Survival" for $800.00 to the CARNEGIE-STOUT PUBLIC LIBRARY. Money for the purchase was made available through the Lull Art Fund. In 1987 and again in 1989, the library was asked to sell the paintings for $1.2 million.
They were part of an exhibit assembled by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, entitled "Grant Wood, The Regionalist Vision" which toured the United States during 1983 and 1984. Beginning in December 1986, the two paintings were stored in an undisclosed location when the cost of insurance had become prohibitive. A grant from the Cottingham and Butler Self-Insured Services Company, Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies, and Marilyn and Robert Delos McDonald made the exhibition of the paintings possible.
Beginning on December 15, 1989, the two paintings, considered by critics to be among the seventy important works of the artist, were again displayed to the public at the library.
