Word: anamosa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country boy who lived mostly in small cities, Wood drew nearly all the fundamental images of his work from the first ten years of his life on a farm near Anamosa, Iowa. No artist was more accommodating to his clients; his first mural commission, The Adoration of the Home, 1921-22, showing a group of allegorical figures around a cornfed goddess of the hearth who holds up a model house built by the Cedar Rapids developer Henry Ely, is a masterpiece of kitsch. But when unleashed, his imagination would scoot back to Anamosa every time...