Fall Plowing Explained

Fall Plowing
Artist:Grant Wood
Year:1931
Medium:Oil on canvas
City:John Deere Corporation Moline, Illinois, USA
Height Imperial:30
Width Imperial:40
Metric Unit:cm
Imperial Unit:in

Fall Plowing is a 1931 oil painting by Grant Wood depicting a plowed field in his home state of Iowa. It pays homage to the recently developed walking plough and steel plowshare commonly used by farmers in the Midwestern United States during this time.[1] It emphasizes the important role that new technologies played on the development of prairie land into workable farmland.[2] The area is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[3]

The original painting is part of the John Deere collection.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Background Reading for Presenters: Grant Wood, Fall Plowing. 2019-03-12. Buchanan Center for the Arts.
  2. Web site: Fall Plowing. 15 July 2015. Picturing the Americas. 2019-03-12.
  3. Web site: Iowa - Linn County. 2019-03-12. American Dreams, Inc..
  4. Web site: Fall Plowing by Grant Wood . 2023-03-30 . www.thehistoryofart.org.