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Dinner for Threshers
by Grant Wood, 1934
StyleAmerican Realism
Artwork Details
Details
- Year
- 1934
- Medium
- Oil on hardboard panel
- Size
- 49.5 × 201.9 cm (19 1/2 × 79 1/2 in)
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Grant Wood depicted a communal harvest meal in Iowa with his characteristic precision and gentle humor. Farm workers gather around a long table while women serve food in a scene of rural American community.
Wood was the leading figure of American Regionalism, celebrating Midwestern life during the Depression era. His stylized, almost folk-art approach distinguished him from both academic realism and European modernism.
The panoramic painting is a centerpiece of the de Young Museum's American art galleries, part of a collection transformed by the Rockefeller gift of 1978.
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About Dinner for Threshers
It's a centerpiece of the de Young Museum's American art galleries in San Francisco, part of a collection transformed by the Rockefeller gift of 1978.
Grant Wood painted it in 1934. He was the leading figure of American Regionalism, a movement celebrating Midwestern life during the Depression era. He's best known for American Gothic.
A communal harvest meal in Iowa. Farm workers gather around a long table while women serve food. The panoramic composition captures the community spirit of rural America with Wood's characteristic precision and gentle humor.
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