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The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art--Taking Shape: Recent Acquisitions in the Fine Art of Craft This week the Daily Palette is celebrating Taking Shape: Recent Acquisitions in the Fine Art of Craft, an exhibition of decorative arts at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (CRMA). This show, on view through February 23, 2014, brings together more than 80 extraordinary works of art in ceramics, glass, wood, and metal from the CRMA collection.
GRANT WOOD Museum purchase, Charles Lamson Hoffman Family Fund, 2012.042 Grant Wood (1891-1942), Iowa's most famous artist, was born in Anamosa and grew up in Cedar Rapids. He founded the Stone City Art Colony in Stone City, Iowa, which operated during the summers of 1932 and 1933. After studying art at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Academie Julian in Paris, he taught art in Cedar Rapids and later at the University of Iowa from 1935 to 1940. A member of the well-known triumvirate of regionalist painters from the Midwest, alongside Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry, Wood focused on scenes of small town life during the 1930s when the country called for nationalistic images that would appeal to the average American. Wood also worked in a variety of other media: he designed stained glass windows and jewelry; he made ceramics, sculptures assembled out of found objects, and prints; he worked in wood; and as can be seen here, he worked with metal to design various objects such as chandeliers and candle stand lamps. Image and exhibition summary courtesy of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art |
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