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Fig. 1.
Spring in Town by Grant Wood (1891–1942), 1941. Signed and dated “GRANT/ WOOD/ 1941” at lower center. Oil on wood, 26 by 24 ½ inches.
Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana, © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
Fig. 2. Wood in a photograph from 1941.
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa.
Grant Wood’s mature career began in 1929, the year of the great stock market crash and the beginning of a decade of national introspection about what constituted the country’s core values and character. The instinct to find reassurance about the future by looking back to a seemingly more innocent past led to a nostalgia for the perceived simplicity and self-sufficiency of rural and small town America. Wood’s romanticized depictions of an archetypal Midwest that was already fading into legend made him a popular, almost mythic figure during the 1930s. But with the rise of internati ....

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