Tree Planting Group, George Charles Miller; Grant Wood; Associated American Artists

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George Charles Miller; Grant Wood; Associated American Artists, Tree Planting Group
George Charles Miller; Grant Wood; Associated American Artists, Tree Planting Group
Grant Wood , George Charles Miller
Tree Planting Group
1937
Grant Wood, artist
1891–1942
George Charles Miller, printer
1894–1965
Tree Planting Group, 1937
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: lithograph; Rives BFK™ paper
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 217 x 278 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 8 9/16 x 10 15/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 19 in
Credit line: Gift of Curtis Besinger
Accession number: 1986.0041
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture," Mar-2009, Steve Goddard This scene relates to Wood’s 1932 painting Arbor Day, and was recently chosen to grace Iowa’s 2004 state quarter. The tradition of Arbor Day can be traced back to 1872, when a Nebraskan pioneer and newspaperman proposed a state-wide tree-planting holiday. Midwesterners’ interest in planting was both environmental and agricultural; newly cultivated tree rows would serve as windbreaks, essential for taming the winter winds that would otherwise rush unchecked across the prairie-in this instance, however, a single tree planted near the house may be a fruit tree.