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GRANT WOOD (1891-1942)

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Painted by young Grant Wood shortly after the second of three European tours he took during the 1920s, The Young Artist extends the artist's interest in painting en plein air begun in northern France. The pointillism of Seurat appealed to Wood, and palette knife painting consumed him in 1925. Yet he had not yet traveled to Munich where, in 1928, he came under the influence of the Northern Renaissance painters, which sparked his interest in the compositional severity and detailed technique associated with his mature works. Painting quickly and decisively, Wood produced The Young Artist from a hilltop at Kenwood Park that overlooks the Cedar River Valley near Cedar Rapids, where he built a house for his sister, Nan. Painted by young Grant Wood shortly after the second of three European tours he took during the 1920s, The Young Artist extends the artist's interest in painting en plein air begun in northern France. The pointillism of Seurat appealed to Wood, and palette knife painting consumed him in 1925. Yet he had not yet traveled to Munich where, in 1928, he came under the influence of the Northern Renaissance painters, which sparked his interest in the compositional severity and detailed technique associated with his mature works. Painting quickly and decisively, Wood produced The Young Artist from a hilltop at Kenwood Park that overlooks the Cedar River Valley near Cedar Rapids, where he built a house for his sister, Nan. Painted by young Grant Wood shortly after the second of three European tours he took during the 1920s, The Young Artist extends the artist's interest in painting en plein air begun in northern France. The pointillism of Seurat appealed to Wood, and palette knife painting consumed him in 1925. Yet he had not yet traveled to Munich where, in 1928, he came under the influence of the Northern Renaissance painters, which sparked his interest in the compositional severity and detailed technique associated with his mature works. Painting quickly and decisively, Wood produced The Young Artist from a hilltop at Kenwood Park that overlooks the Cedar River Valley near Cedar Rapids, where he built a house for his sister, Nan. Painted by young Grant Wood shortly after the second of three European tours he took during the 1920s, The Young Artist extends the artist's interest in painting en plein air begun in northern France. The pointillism of Seurat appealed to Wood, and palette knife painting consumed him in 1925. Yet he had not yet traveled to Munich where, in 1928, he came under the influence of the Northern Renaissance painters, which sparked his interest in the compositional severity and detailed technique associated with his mature works. Painting quickly and decisively, Wood produced The Young Artist from a hilltop at Kenwood Park that overlooks the Cedar River Valley near Cedar Rapids, where he built a house for his sister, Nan. Painted by young Grant Wood shortly after the second of three European tours he took during the 1920s, The Young Artist extends the artist's interest in painting en plein air begun in northern France. The pointillism of Seurat appealed to Wood, and palette knife painting consumed him in 1925. Yet he had not yet traveled to Munich where, in 1928, he came under the influence of the Northern Renaissance painters, which sparked his interest in the compositional severity and detailed technique associated with his mature works. Painting quickly and decisively, Wood produced The Young Artist from a hilltop at Kenwood Park that overlooks the Cedar River Valley near Cedar Rapids, where he built a house for his sister, Nan. Painted by young Grant Wood shortly after the second of three European tours he took during the 1920s, The Young Artist extends the artist's interest in painting en plein air begun in northern France. The pointillism of Seurat appealed to Wood, and palette knife painting consumed him in 1925. Yet he had not yet traveled to Munich where, in 1928, he came under the influence of the Northern Renaissance painters, which sparked his interest in the compositional severity and detailed technique associated with his mature works. Painting quickly and decisively, Wood produced The Young Artist from a hilltop at Kenwood Park that overlooks the Cedar River Valley near Cedar Rapids, where he built a house for his sister, Nan. Painted by young Grant Wood shortly after the second of three European tours he took during the 1920s, The Young Artist extends the artist's interest in painting en plein air begun in northern France. The pointillism of Seurat appealed to Wood, and palette knife painting consumed him in 1925. Yet he had not yet traveled to Munich where, in 1928, he came under the influence of the Northern Renaissance painters, which sparked his interest in the compositional severity and detailed technique associated with his mature works. Painting quickly and decisively, Wood produced The Young Artist from a hilltop at Kenwood Park that overlooks the Cedar River Valley near Cedar Rapids, where he built a house for his sister, Nan. Painted by young Grant Wood shortly after the second of three European tours he took during the 1920s, The Young Artist extends the artist's interest in painting en plein air begun in northern France. The pointillism of Seurat appealed to Wood, and palette knife painting consumed him in 1925. Yet he had not yet traveled to Munich where, in 1928, he came under the influence of the Northern Renaissance painters, which sparked his interest in the compositional severity and detailed technique associated with his mature works. Painting quickly and decisively, Wood produced The Young Artist from a hilltop at Kenwood Park that overlooks the Cedar River Valley near Cedar Rapids, where he built a house for his sister, Nan. Painted by young Grant Wood shortly after the second of three European tours he took during the 1920s, The Young Artist extends the artist's interest in painting en plein air begun in northern France. The pointillism of Seurat appealed to Wood, and palette knife painting consumed him in 1925. Yet he had not yet traveled to Munich where, in 1928, he came under the influence of the Northern Renaissance painters, which sparked his interest in the compositional severity and detailed technique associated with his mature works. Painting quickly and decisively, Wood produced The Young Artist from a hilltop at Kenwood Park that overlooks the Cedar River Valley near Cedar Rapids, where he built a house for his sister, Nan. Painted by young Grant Wood shortly after the second of three European tours he took during the 1920s, The Young Artist extends the artist's interest in painting en plein air begun in northern France. The pointillism of Seurat appealed to Wood, and palette knife painting consumed him in 1925. Yet he had not yet traveled to Munich where, in 1928, he came under the influence of the Northern Renaissance painters, which sparked his interest in the compositional severity and detailed technique associated with his mature works. Painting quickly and decisively, Wood produced The Young Artist from a hilltop at Kenwood Park that overlooks the Cedar River Valley near Cedar Rapids, where he built a house for his sister, Nan.
The Young Artist192611 x 14 x 1 in.(27.94 x 35.56 x 2.54 cm) oil on panel
Provenance
Grant Wood Private Collection
Collection of his sister Nan Wood (American Gothic)
Collection of Nan Wood’s Niece
Collection of Nan Wood’s Grand Niece
Exhibition
West Palm Beach, Florida, Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, Discovering Creativity: American Art Masters, January 10 - March 17, 2024
Literature
James M. Dennis, An Essay into Landscapes:The Art of Grant Wood, Kansas State University, 1972, p. 87, illustrated p. 92
 Price625,000
Painted by young Grant Wood shortly after the second of three European tours he took during the 1920s, The Young Artist extends the artist's interest in painting en plein air begun in northern France. The pointillism of Seurat appealed to Wood, and palette knife painting consumed him in 1925. Yet he had not yet traveled to Munich where, in 1928, he came under the influence of the Northern Renaissance painters, which sparked his interest in the compositional severity and detailed technique associated with his mature works. Painting quickly and decisively, Wood produced The Young Artist from a hilltop at Kenwood Park that overlooks the Cedar River Valley near Cedar Rapids, where he built a house for his sister, Nan.
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