id: 162282
accession number: 2002.2
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2002.2
updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:46.885000
January, 1940–41. Grant Wood (American, 1891–1942). Oil on masonite panel; framed: 67 x 82.5 x 7.5 cm (26 3/8 x 32 1/2 x 2 15/16 in.); unframed: 45.7 x 60.1 cm (18 x 23 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2002.2 Art © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
title: January
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creation date: 1940–41
creation date earliest: 1940
creation date latest: 1941
current location: 226B American Modern
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright: Art © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: oil on masonite panel
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Grant Wood (American, 1891–1942) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 67 x 82.5 x 7.5 cm (26 3/8 x 32 1/2 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 45.7 x 60.1 cm (18 x 23 11/16 in.)
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inscription: signed and dated lower left: Grant Wood/1940
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00
The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
title: Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables
opening date: 2018-03-02T05:00:00
Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 2-June 10, 2018).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Fifty-Third Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture (29 October-10 December 1942), cat. no. 14.', 'opening_date': '1942-10-29T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision (16 June-4 September 1983); traveled to Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts (25 September 1983-1 January 1984); Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago (21 January-15 April 1984); San Francisco, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (12 May-12 August 1984), cat. no. 62, illus. p. 60, fig. no. 102.', 'opening_date': '1983-06-16T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (3/2/2018 - 6/10/2018): "Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables"', 'opening_date': '2018-03-02T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
date: 2002-
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(Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: -2002
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Private collector, New Jersey
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King W. Vidor Trust
date: 1982-
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King Vidor [1894-1982] and Elizabeth Hill Vidor [1901-1978], Beverly Hills, CA
date: 1941-1982
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Maroney, Jr., James H. Fresh Perspectives on Grant Wood, Charles Sheeler, and George Durrie. Leicester, VT: Gala Books, Ltd, 2019.
page number: Mentioned: p.39, 46, 52, 80; Reproduced p. 45.
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Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., wire transfer request for purchase of painting, March 7, 2002, in CMA curatorial file.
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James Berry Hill, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, April 8, 2013, in CMA curatorial file.
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Nygard, Travis Earl. "Seeds of Agribusiness: Grant Wood and the Visual Culture of Grain Farming, 1862-1957." Ph.D. diss, University of Pittsburgh, 2009.
page number: Mentioned P. 196; Reproduced P. 242.
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Taylor, Sue. Grant Wood's Secrets (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2020.
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Parnassus, May, 1940, illus.
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Grant Wood, letter to King Vidor, April 26,1941.
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"The Important Works of Grant Wood," Demcourier 7 (May, 1942).
page number: Reproduced: p. 17
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"The Middle Western Scene from Memorial Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture at the Chicago Art Institute October 29 to December 29," The Chicago Daily News, October 17, 1942.
page number: Reproduced: p. 12
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"Grant Wood: Iowa's No. 1 Artist Who Died Last Winter Gets Big Retrospective Show in Chicago," Life, January 18, 1943, illus. p. 57.
page number: Reproduced: p. 57
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Garwood, Darrell. Artist in Iowa: A Life of Grant Wood. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1944.
page number: Mentioned: p.209; Reproduced: p. 224, 254
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Weigel Brown, Helen. "Have you ever bought a painting?" House Beautiful (December, 1945).
page number: Reproduced: p. 103
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'Regional Paintings by Corn Belt artists are Among Nation's Best." Holiday Magazine (November, 1948).
page number: Reproduced: p. 148
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Dennis, James M. Grant Wood: A Study in American Art and Culture. New York: Viking Press, 1975.
page number: Mentioned: p. 201; Reproduced: p. 202, plate 38
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Czestochowski, Joseph S. John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood: A Portrait of Rural America. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1981.
page number: Mentioned: o.128-136,208,210-211
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Corn, Wanda M., and Grant Wood. Grant Wood, the Regionalist Vision. New Haven: Published for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts by Yale University Press, 1983.
page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 62, Reproduced: fig. 102, p. 60.
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James Maroney Incoportated advertisement, Art in America 71 no. 9 (October, 1983).
page number: Reproduced: p. 18
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James Maroney Incorporated advertisement. The Magazine Antiques (November, 1983) 124, no. 5.
page number: Reproduced: p. 821
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Kuspit, Donald B. "Grant Wood: Pathos of the Plain." Art in America 72 no. 3 (March, 1984).
page number: Reproduced: p. 142
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Hirschl & Adler Galleries Inc. Advertisement. The Magazine Antiques (February,1987), 131, no. 2.
page number: Reproduced: p. 322
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Woiwode, Larry. "Against the Grain: A Writer's Personal Odyssey Through Grant Wood's Vision of America." Art & Antiques 6, no. 1(January, 1988).
page number: Mentioned: p. 76; Reproduced: p. 76
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Duggleby, John. Artist in Overalls: The Life of Grant Wood. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995.
page number: Reproduced: p. 30
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Litt Steven. "Museum Buys Major Painting by Grant Wood." The Plain Dealer, March 7, 2002.
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Adams, Henry, "Grant Wood's January", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 42 no. 06, Summer 2002
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 10-11
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2002-06/page/n9
Tranberg, Dan. "Art Matters: Museum Arranges Modern Works to Tell History Better." The Plain Dealer, August 16, 2002.illus.
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"Major Acquisitions 2000-2005." Cleveland Art 45 (July/August 2005).
page number: Mentioned: p. 7, 14, 18
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Adams, Henry. What's American about American Art? A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.
page number: Mentioned: p. 139; Reproduced: p. 138
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Walker, Andrew. Joe Jones: Radical Painter of the American Scene. Seattle: Saint Louis Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press, 2010.
page number: Reproduced: p. 75
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Maroney, Jr., James H. Hiding in Plain Sight: Decoding the Homoerotic and Misogynistic Imagery of Grant Wood. Leicester: Gala Books, 2013.
page number: Mentioned: p. 10, 47-48, 55-56, 58,82; Reproduced: p. 47
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Haskell, Barbara. Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.
page number: Reproduced: p. 192, pl. 100
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The Burlington Magazine. "Exhibitions." The Burlington Magazine 160, no.1383 (June 2018).
page number: Reproduced: p. 503, fig. 18
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Maroney, James H. Fresh Perspectives on Grant Wood, Charles Sheeler, and George H. Durrie. Leicester, VT: Gala Books, Ltd., 2019.
page number: Reproduced: p. 45
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Stokes Sims, Lowery. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.
page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 79, p. 120, Reproduced: p. 72
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