Triptych showing farmers chopping trees and plowing fields with horses and a plaque quoting tillage.

Drawings

Study for Breaking the Prairie

1935–1939

Medium
Colored pencil, chalk, and graphite pencil on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 22 3/4 × 80 1/4 in. (57.8 × 203.8 cm)
Accession number
81.33.2a-c
Acquired
1981
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George D. Stoddard
Reproduction credit
© Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Grant Wood, Study for Breaking the Prairie, 1935–1939. Colored pencil, chalk, and graphite pencil on paper, overall: 22 3/4 × 80 1/4 in. (57.8 × 203.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Mr. and Mrs. George D. Stoddard 81.33.2a-c. © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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