Annelise K. Madsen | Art Institute of Chicago | 29 Oct 2016 “Something of color and imagination”: Grant Wood, Storytelling, and the Past’s Appeal in Depression-Era America Grant Wood, Parson Weems’ Fable, 1939, oil on canvas. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 2 New York Times, January 3, 1940, p. 18. 3 Grant Wood, Parson Weems’ Fable, 1939, oil on canvas. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 4 Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (The Athenaeum Portrait), 1796, oil on canvas. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; owned jointly with Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 5 Grant Wood, Parson Weems’ Fable, 1939, oil on canvas. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Grant Wood with Parson Weems’ Fable on easel, 1939. Figge Art Museum Grant Wood Digital 6 Collection, scrapbook 8, University of Iowa Libraries. John Steuart Curry, The Oklahoma Land Rush, April 22, 1889, 1938. Department of Interior Building, Washington, D.C. Charles Goodwin, Fragment of Shaker Hall Rug, c. 1937, watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink. 7 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Index of American Design. Grant Wood, Daughters of Revolution, 1932, oil on Masonite. Cincinnati Art Museum. 8 Grant Wood, Daughters of Revolution, 1932, oil on Masonite. Cincinnati Art Museum. Grant Wood (designer); Emil Frei Art Glass Company, Munich, Germany (fabricator), Memorial 9 Window, 1928–29, stained glass. Veterans Memorial Building, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851, oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 10 Grant Wood, Daughters of Revolution, 1932, oil on Masonite. Cincinnati Art Museum. Grant Wood, Daughters of Revolution, 1932, oil on Masonite. Cincinnati Art Museum. 11 Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930, oil on Beaver board. Art Institute of Chicago. Grant Wood, Victorian Survival, 1931, oil on composition board. Carnegie Stout Public Library. 12 Grant Wood, Daughters of Revolution, 1932, oil on Masonite. Cincinnati Art Museum. Aaron Douglas, Aspiration, 1936, oil on canvas. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 13 Ben Shahn, The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1931–32, tempera and gouache on canvas mounted on composition board. Whitney Museum of American Art. 14 Charles Sheeler, Home, Sweet Home, 1931, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts. Morris Kantor, Haunted House, 1930, oil on canvas. Art Institute of Chicago. 15 Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930, oil on canvas. Whitney Museum of American Art. 16 Doris Lee, Thanksgiving, c. 1935, oil on canvas. Art Institute of Chicago. Grant Wood, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931, oil on Masonite. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 17 Grant Wood, Stone City, Iowa, 1930, oil on panel. Joslyn Art Museum. Grant Wood, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931, oil on Masonite. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 18 Grant Wood, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931, oil on Masonite. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 19 Installation view of Daughters of Revolution and Parson Weems’ Fable in America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, June 2016. 20 21.