Copy painting on canvas of the artwork
Fall Plowing (Wood)

“Fall Plowing” is one of Grant Wood’s most iconic and celebrated landscapes, completed in 1931. This oil painting offers an idealized and majestic vision of Iowa agriculture. In the foreground, an antique plow rests on the dark, rich, freshly turned earth, whose perfect geometric furrows guide the viewer’s eye toward the horizon. Beyond the plowed field, the landscape unfolds in a succession of rolling green hills, dotted with carefully aligned golden haystacks and trees with round, fluffy foliage. In the distance, a red and white farm, a symbol of agricultural prosperity, crowns the scene under a peaceful sky. Wood transcends the harsh reality of working the land here to make it a true visual poetry, where nature tamed by man becomes an abstract pattern of absolute harmony.