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Artwork Facts
Grant Wood
1892-1942
Main Street Mansion
1936-37
pencil, chalk and charcoal on brown paper
20 x 15 3/4 inches
signed lower left
Museum purchase
1995.14
"Main Street Mansion" from the Grant Wood illustrated edition of Sinclair Lewis' "Main Street" has been reproduced with the permission of Easton Press
Not on view
Analysis
This is an illustration for Main Street, a novel Sinclair Lewis wrote in 1920. Set in the fictional town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the story examines the lives of the town's narrow minded inhabitants. The house pictured in this drawing may be the home of Dr. Will Kennicott, one of the main characters. Grant Wood was known for his optimistic Midwestern agrarian scenes and continues this tradition, shared by his colleagues such as Thomas Hart Benton, in illustrating life in a small town.
