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Farmer's Wife with Chickens, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Wood, Grant 1892-1942  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Coe College Cedar Rapids Iowa
Date:
1932
Notes:
Milosch, Jane C., ed., "Grant Wood's Studio: Birthplace of American Gothic," New York, NY: Prestel Publishing, 2005, pg. 27.
Summary:
Scene depicts a woman standing amid a group of four chickens, her left hand holding a large bowl of grain, and her right hand holding a hand full of grain for a chicken to eat. She wears a brown dress with a blue checkered apron.
Topic:
Landscape--Farm  Search this
Figure female--Full length  Search this
Occupation--Farm  Search this
Animal--Bird--Chicken  Search this
Control number:
IAP 89140017
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_373432