Grant Wood
American, 1891-1942
January
INV-2284
Grant Wood
American, 1891-19421938
charcoalprints and drawing
Date
1938
Medium
Charcoal, smudging and erasure, and white Conté crayon on tan paperboard
Dimensions
52 × 68 cm (20 1/2 × 26 13/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Regenstein Acquisition Fund and Regenstein Foundation
This impressive drawing relates to a series of lithographs—which Wood planned but never completed—representing all the seasons and months of the year. He made finished drawings depicting four of the months, and this is the only subject of which he also made a painting. Contrary to the usual evolution of a composition, he made the lithograph first, in 1937, then this drawing, in 1938, and finally the painting, in 1940.
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