Artist:

Grant Wood, born Anamosa, IA 1891-died Iowa City, IA 1942  Search this

Medium:

charcoal, pencil and chalk on paperboard

Dimensions:

image: 21 1/8 x 16 in. (53.6 x 40.6 cm)

Type:

Drawing

Date:

1937

Exhibition Label:

Village Slums is one of nine illustrations that Wood created for Sinclair Lewis’s 1920 novel Main Street. Seven of the drawings depict characters from the novel, while only two show locations. Village Slums and another that details a mansion on Main Street that contrasts poor and wealthy neighborhoods. Wood made use of a bird’s-eye perspective in Village Slums, indicating that the viewer is looking down on the little community.

Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2009

Topic:

Cityscape\street\alley  Search this

Architecture\other\well  Search this

Cityscape\weather\snow  Search this

Architecture Exterior\domestic\house  Search this

Architecture Exterior\domestic\bathroom  Search this

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Park and Phyllis Rinard

Object number:

1991.122.1

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Department:

Graphic Arts

Data Source:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk78b666b76-ffe8-44f0-8440-8e6b7b764fa6

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:saam_1991.122.1