Approaching Storm
Grant Wood
(American, 1891–1942)
1940
Medium/TechniqueLithograph
DimensionsImage: 30.2 × 22.6 cm (11 7/8 × 8 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 40.3 × 29.9 cm (15 7/8 × 11 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 40.3 × 29.9 cm (15 7/8 × 11 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession number45.180
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This is the artist's last print. Was the approaching storm an allusion to the events leading up to America's entry into World War II? Perhaps Wood contemplated the enormous potential for change that loomed in the lives young midwest farmers. America's entry into war.
ProvenancePDP Register entry: Date acquired, 2/8/1945
