Abstract
JAMES R. SWENSEN examines how photographer Russell Lee's work in Depression-era Iowa drew inspiration from and directly challenged the most prominent Iowa artist of the era, Grant Wood. In a dramatic catalog of photographs captured in December of 1936, Lee's unflinching depiction of the trials of rural life starkly contrasted Wood's bucolic Regionalist paintings.
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Swensen, J., (2022) “Uncommon Ground: Grant Wood and Russell Lee's Divergent View of Iowa”, The Annals of Iowa 81(3), 239–276. doi: https://doi.org/10.17077/0003-4827.33694
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