Painter of the famous “American Gothic”, Grant Wood of Anamosa, Iowa is one of America’s most beloved artists. Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art has brought a Grant Wood mural section to David City, Nebraska, as part of a larger installation project in the museum’s Collection Gallery.
With the installation of this piece by Wood, Bone Creek now has representation by all of the big four of regionalism; Grant Wood of Iowa, Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, John Steuart Curry of Kansas, and Dale Nichols of Nebraska. The newest addition to the exhibit is a fragment from the Corn Room Mural of the Chieftain Hotel in Council Bluffs, Iowa painted in 1926, on loan from the Bluffs Arts Council. Since 2008, they have been working on a project to restore and reassemble the mural. Several other mural pieces have been restored and installed in the Pottawattamie County Courthouse in Council Bluffs as the initial step in their goal to display the Corn Room murals intact in their original luster.