Articles from December 2016

Spring in Town, Grant Wood

Strong art shows in 2016 highlighted current events, recent art history

Sunday, December 25, 2016
“Grant Wood and the American Farm,” on view through Saturday, was organized around “Spring Turning,” Wood’s only painting owned by Reynolda House — a bird’s-eye-view of a cultivated farm field in midwestern hill country, painted in 1936. Another inspiration for the show is the Reynolda estate’s original function as a state-of-the-art model farm. The overarching focus is the central place of agrarian life in this country from 1850 through the mid-20th century.