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"While most famously known for his paintings, which garnered immediate national attention, Grant Wood also worked in decorative arts, jewelry design, and illustration. He did so in part to make much-needed money for his family, but he was also committed to creating a vibrant artistic culture in small-town Iowa that was not beholden to larger metropolises such as Chicago and New York".

Chandelier for Iowa Corn Room, Hotel Montrose, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1925)
"Grant Wood was relatively unknown outside of Eastern Iowa when Eppley commissioned him to decorate the hotel's coffee shop in 1932. Wood's seven 'The Fruits of Iowa' paintings of Iowa farm life in the 1920s and '30s were the result".

"Wood also painted murals for the Montrose's Corn Room and designed corn-themed chandeliers".
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"After Wood died in 1942, Eppley advertised the Montrose's '$50,000 Art Gallery Collection of paintings by the late Grant Wood,' displayed on the hotel's mezzanine".

"When the Eppley chain was dissolved in 1956, Eppley kept the paintings, loaning them to Coe College in 1957. Coe became the paintings' owner in 1976 when the Eppley Foundation of Omaha was liquidated".
 
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"Here's another amorphous rendering, this one based on Grant Wood's homage to prairie life (Art Institute of Chicago). This is an investigation of hand-eye coordination, not a cartoon. I wasn't trying to be funny - well, except for the pitchfork holes in the top of the picture: that's funny (but poor Mrs. Goth, what with her head floating like a balloon in that very direction). See also my NEW color version: American Gothic Retooled. by Gary Peterson"

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