";s:4:"text";s:4034:" Grant Wood, American painter who was one of the major exponents of Midwestern Regionalism, a movement that flourished in the United States during the 1930s. Effective June 2020, this application has a new look and feel! Each year, three fellows are selected from an international search to become artists-in-residence and visiting assistant professors at the University of Iowa. Coe College then petitioned a court to re-designate the paintings as unrestricted gifts, arguing that the reference to Coe College being the art's "permanent home" in the gift letter implied the paintings were no longer on loan and should not restrict their sale.The school's endowment dropped by $5.4 million because of the paintings' reclassification, according to court filings.The district court ruled that the auditor was correct. The Grant Wood Art Colony celebrates the life and legacy of Iowa’s most famous artist, Grant Wood. Ames. Up until 2016, the college documented the paintings as an unrestricted gift that could be sold.
The case was appealed and sent before the Supreme Court, which on Friday stood by the lower court's decision, ruling in part that the school failed to show how that drop resulted in financial difficulties. "The effort to honor Eppley would cease to have the same significance without the presence of the Grant Wood artwork," Friday's ruling reads.The "charitable purpose of honoring Eppley and dignifying and beautifying the Coe campus through the display of the Wood paintings" has become neither impracticable or impossible for the college, the court said. A New Look! The Eppley Foundation was dissolved in 1977.
“Grant Wood never said what he meant” with any of his paintings, Kevin Murphy warned. All panels are oil on canvas and use a quotation from Daniel Webster’s remarks on “The Agriculture of England” made on January 13, … Through a competitive...The Grant Wood Art Colony is a featured program of the University of Iowa Provost’s Office of Outreach & Engagement.
Iowa Supreme Court ruled Grant Wood paintings at Coe College can't be sold despite effect on school's endowment Anna Spoerre, Des Moines Register 11/9/2019. Marvin D. Cone was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, where in 1906 he began a lifelong friendship with Grant Wood. After painting one of the most recognizable images in the world, American Gothic, Wood joined the University of Iowa faculty.Each year, the Colony provides three Fellowships in Painting & Drawing, Printmaking , and Interdisciplinary Performance. He began the Colony in cooperation with College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2011 and serves as the chair of the Colony’s National Board of Advisors. The preliminary color scheme in colored pencil was done by Lee Allen under the direction of Wood. After painting one of the most recognizable images in the world, The Grant Wood Art Colony of the University of Iowa announces the recipients of the 2020-21 Grant Wood Fellowship. "Because of the inherent ambiguity of the original gift letter and the lapse of time from when the gift was made, the college sought clarity on the impact of these works when valuing Coe's total endowment," he said.#BlackBirdersWeek, #BlackInNeuro: Black scientists, physicians are using hashtags to upliftA 17-year-old Sesame Place employee was brutally attacked after asking a visitor to wear a mask, revealing a crisis for workers across AmericaIowa Supreme Court ruled Grant Wood paintings at Coe College can't be sold despite effect on school's endowmentShow full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours.