January (January Snow; January Thaw)
Grant DeVolson Wood, American, 1892 - 1942
1938
Lithograph on wove paper
250
Image: 9 × 11 15/16 in. (22.8 × 30.3 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/16 × 16 1/8 in. (30.6 × 40.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.938.4
Printer
George C. Miller
Publisher
Associated American Artists, New York
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Grant Wood Watermark: GCM
Course History
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
Exhibition History
American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.
Looking for America: Prints of Rural Life from the 1930's and 1940's, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 3, 1994-March 5, 1995
Winter in Rural America, Prints from the 1930's and 1940's, [American Works on Paper wall], Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 1-May 30, 2011.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Looking for America: Prints of Rural Life from the 1930s and 1940s, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1994, listed no. 60, ill. fig. 2.
Upper Valley Magazine Preview of the Arts, Upper Valley Magazine, West Lebanon: Van Etten, Inc, 1994, ill. p. 67
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 165, no. 135.
Provenance
Associated American Artists, New York; sold to present collection, 1938.
Catalogue Raisonne
Cole 3; Czestochowski W-5
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