Mildred Lenore Weenink, who would become a well-known Iowa artist and arts advocate, was 2 years old in 1891 when her parents moved from Wisconsin to Dillon, Mont., where her father, H.D. Weenink, opened a photography studio.

Attorney Jim Hayes has lived in Grant Wood’s Iowa City home since 1975. Over the years, Hayes bought surrounding properties and founded the Grant Wood Art Colony — an artist fellowship program with few peers in the world, now at the University of Iowa.