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Uncommon Ground: Grant Wood and Russell Lee's Divergent View of Iowa

Author: James R. Swensen (Brigham Young University)

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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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How to Cite: Swensen, J. (2022) “Uncommon Ground: Grant Wood and Russell Lee's Divergent View of Iowa”, The Annals of Iowa. 81(3). doi: https://doi.org/10.17077/0003-4827.33694