January (January Snow; January Thaw)

Grant DeVolson Wood, American, 1892 - 1942

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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

Print

Research Area

Print

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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