February
Primary
Grant Wood
(Anamosa, Iowa, 1892–Iowa City, Iowa, 1942)
NationalityAmerican, North America
Date1941
MediumLithograph
DimensionsSheet: 11 15/16 × 15 7/8 in. (30.3 × 40.4 cm)
Image: 8 15/16 × 11 7/8 in. (22.7 × 30.1 cm)
Image: 8 15/16 × 11 7/8 in. (22.7 × 30.1 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Susan Garwood in memory of Sue Ann Reagan, 2004.106
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2004.106
On View
Not on viewWood produced a complex range of soft tone through tiny lines. Where the lines build up, he went back in and scratched away small highlights to invest the print with a flickering light. A stronger line in the foreground provides contrast, and Wood preserved the white of the sheet to evoke a fine line of snow on the barbed wire fence.
