Stone City Art Colony
| Stone City Art Colony | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Basic and Advanced Composition, Outdoor Painting, Figure drawing, Lithography, Sculpture, and Picture Framing. |
| Dates | Saturday, June 26, 1932 to Saturday, August 6, 1932 Tuesday, June 27, 1933 to Tuesday, August 22, 1933. |
| Location(s) | John A. Green Estate, Stone City, Iowa |
| Years active | Original colony held in 1932; again held in 1933. |
| Founded by | Edward Rowan, Adrian Dornbush, Grant Wood |
Coordinates: 42°07′N 91°21′W / 42.11°N 91.35°W
The Stone City Art Colony was an art colony founded by Edward Rowan, Adrian Dornbush, and Grant Wood. The colony gathered on the John A. Green Estate in Stone City, Iowa during the summers of 1932 and 1933.
The colony was started by Edward Rowan, director of the Little Gallery in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Adrian Dornbush, former director of the Flint Institute of Art and a Little Gallery art instructor, and famous local artist Grant Wood. Rowan was the primary facilitator of the creation of the colony, and his commitment to the project led the Carnegie Foundation to invest $1000 in the colony’s creation.
The Stone City Art Colony was meant as an alternative to more established artist colonies in and Santa Fe, allowing artists in the Midwest to have an easily accessible site for residency. Residents lived in ice house wagons that they decorated themselves. Wood later employed many of the artists at the colony in the Public Works of Art Project (later named Civil Works Administration) which he administered for the state of Iowa, producing a large number of Depression Era murals (thanks to the New Deal) that still decorate many post offices and public buildings in Iowa.
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