GRANT WOOD (1891-1942)

Lot 237
23.01.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1539382
Lot 237 | GRANT WOOD (1891-1942)
Valeur estimée
$ 70 000 – 100 000
GRANT WOOD (1891-1942)
Study for American Gothic
inscribed 'American Gothic' (lower center)
pencil on paper
sight, 4 ¼ x 3 ¼ in. (10.8 x 8.3 cm.);
sheet, 4 ¾ x 3 ½ in. (12.1 x 8.9 cm.)
Executed in 1930.




Provenance

Maynard Walker, New York, circa 1935.
Mrs. and Mrs. John P. Marquand, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Estate of the above.
James Maroney, Inc., New York.
Richard K. Larcada, New York, by 1983.
Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 1989, lot 199.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.



Literature

J.M. Dennis, "An Essay Into Landscapes: The Art of Grant Wood," Kansas Quarterly, vol. IV, no. 4, Fall 1972, pp. 43, 101, fig. 65, illustrated (as Original Sketch for 'American Gothic').
J.M. Dennis, Grant Wood: A Study in American Art and Culture, New York, 1975, pp. 80, 86, fig. 83, illustrated.
S. Biel, American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting, New York, 2005, p. 23, illustrated.
B. Haskell, Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2018, p. 213, fig, 16, illustrated (as Sketch for American Gothic).



Exhibited

New York, Gallery Urban, The World Through 'Naive' Eyes, March 10-April 11, 1987, n.p., no. 2, illustrated.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco, California, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision, June 16 1983-August 12, 1984, p. 131, no. 157, illustrated (as Sketch for American Gothic).



Further Details

The present work will be included in Wanda Corn’s forthcoming publication, The Couple with the Pitchfork: From Easel to Icon.
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