December Afternoon
Lithograph, 1941, Johnson 18, Cole 16; edition 250. 9 x 11 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. the condition is excellent with two small hinges from the original AAA matting. We also have the label that came with the print as issued.
SOLD

February
Lithograph, 1942, Cole 17, edition 250. 8 7/8 x 11 3/4 in. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine impression in fine condition with full margins. With a pencil dedication added by Wood just below the image. An exemplary work.
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Fertility
Lithograph, 1939, Johnson 14, Cole 15; edition 250. 9 x 11 3/4 in. Signed in pencil, lower right. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from old hinges at the top corners. This is one of Wood's best prints and the edition was printed by George Miller. The watermark is GCM.
ON HOLD

Honorary Degree
Lithograph, 1938, Cole 4, edition 250. 11 7/8 x 6 7/8 in. Signed in pencil, lower right. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. This iconic image is one of Wood's few self portraits. The arched window in the background echos the design from his American Gothic painting from 1930.
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In the Spring
Lithograph, 1939, Johnson 13, Cole 13; edition 250. 8 7/8 x 11 3/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a very fine impression with full margins. The condition is outstanding. In his excellent 2016 catalog of Grant Wood's lithographs, Bruce Johnson writes the following about this print: "...the lithograph transcends from being a portrait of one individual to a symbol of all farmers and their relationship to their land." (pg. 105). The paper bears a RIVES watermark and was printed by George Miller in New York.
$6,500

January
Lithograph, 1938, Johnson 3, Cole 3; edition 250. 9 x 11 3/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This memorable winter image was done in Iowa and there's at least one related drawing and oil painting. (The painting is located in the Cleveland Museum of Art.) This is one of six Grant Wood prints reproduced in Thomas Craven's 1939 book, A Treasury of American Prints.
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July Fifteenth
Lithograph, 1938, Johnson 6, Cole 5; edition 250. 9 x 11 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on RIVES paper with full margins. The condition is very good apart from slight thinness to the paper on the outer edges, verso. The print was attached at the edges at some point and this minor issue does not show in the front at all.
$9,000

March
Lithograph, 1941, Johnson 17, Cole 14, edition 250. 9 x 11 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression in fine condition. The margins are somewhat trimmed measuring one inch on all sides. At least two preparatory drawings exist for this print and the edition was printed by George Miller and published by AAA in New York. The great design for this print gives it a strikingly modernist look. "March" expouses Wood's compositional practice of dynamic symmetry. (See Johnson, pg. 129-130)
ON HOLD

Seed Time and Harvest
Lithograph, 1937, Johnson 2, edition 250 7 3/8 x 12 1/8 in. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. This is a fine impression in superb condition. The margins are full. This is an exemplary lithograph from Wood's early work.
$7,000

Tree Planting Group
Lithograph, 1937, Johnson 1, Cole 1; edition 250. 8 3/8 x 10 7/8 in. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. This is a fine impression in excellent condition. The margins are full and untrimmed. This exemplary American print from the 1930s depicts an Arbor Day celebration at a rural Iowa schoolhouse. Grant Wood's great skills as a draughtsman are here readily apparent.
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Wild Flowers
Lithograph with hand coloring by the artist's sister, 1939, Johnson 12, Cole 9; edition 250. 7 x 10 in. Signed in pencil, lower right. This is a fine impression with fresh colors. The margins are full and the condition is fine.
SOLD