Dinner for Threshers

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.