Grant Wood and Marvin Cone Gallery Opens at Cedar Rapids Art Museum
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art unveiled a new Grant Wood and Marvin Cone An American Tradition gallery honoring Cone and late Marvin Cone. The exhibit combines about 135 works from both Cedar Rapids artists, plus 26 new Cone pieces and key Wood works, funded by a Hall Foundation grant and local donations. Open Tue–Sat 10 00–5 00 Thu 8 30 pm Sun 2–5 pm. Admission free.
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Winnifred Cone
Marvin
Grant Wood
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Third Street SE
Marvin Cone
Czestochowski
Ben Huston
Cone
Huston
Museum of Art
Hall Foundation
Marvin D. Cone
Art Association
Coe College
The
John B. Turner II
Cedar Rapidians
Turner
National Endowment For the Arts
Contemporaries Grant Wood and admirer recall murals
A Cedar Rapids area reminiscence recounts meeting Grant Wood in the 1930s. The narrator details witnessing Wood murals at a hotel, ownership transfers of Young Corn, and the painting’s move to Cedar Rapids institutions on permanent loan.
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Montrose
Ville d’Avray
Iowa
Linn County
Turner Alley
Wood
Grant Wood
Wilson Junior High
Fruits of Iowa
Coe College
Wilson
Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
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Mrs. Cone
Cedar Rapids’ Art Museum
Bob Crosby
Otis Tuttle
Lafayette
Eran Grant Wood
Hiawatha
Sat
Sun
Barefoot
Gazette
Edgewood
Blairs Ferry
Blairs Ferry Rd
Tii
Thur
16Th Ave