Painting reproduction hand painted
Young Corn (Wood)

“Young Corn” (1931) is a masterful landscape that encapsulates Grant Wood’s love for the fertile undulations of the Midwest. This canvas, a true ode to spring agriculture, focuses on the gentle, rounded slopes of Iowa planted with very young corn seedlings. The rows of seedlings, green and meticulously traced, form hypnotic geometric patterns on the brown earth. The large, spongy, voluminous trees, characteristic of the artist’s style, dot the composition, providing large areas of soft shadows. In the hollow of the valley, tiny farmers can be seen at work, while a modest yellow and white farm peacefully watches over the right. The harmony of green and ocher shades and the roundness of the forms give this rural panorama an atmosphere of abundance, peace, and ordered beauty, dear to the Regionalist movement.