Grant Wood
(1892 - 1942)

Tree Planting Group
Lithograph, 1937
Ed. 250
8 1/2 x 11 inches
Ref. Czest W-3
Signed in pencil
$7,000

Wood often borrowed from his childhood memories of a one-room school near Anamosa. His sister Nan related: "As Grant meandered to and from school each day, he observed the world around him-the plowed fields, the growing corn, the seasons, the animals, the people, and the little country school. In later years, he immortalized these scenes in painting titled Young Corn, Fall Plowing, Spring Turning, and Arbor Day". This print is a reprise to that latter painting. Wood deeply respected his nurturing teachers and pays artistic homage to them. Wood, an educator himself, taught art in the Cedar Rapids public schools until 1925. He resumed formal teaching in 1932 as co-director of the Stone City Art Colony for two years. His fellow director Adrian Dornbush, a former Dubuque resident and Art Association president, taught many Dubuque area students.

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