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THBGRANT WOOD AND CARL FLICK DRAWINGS
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2229 Lincoln Street
Cedar Falls, IA 50613
United States
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LiveNov 27, 2018
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- Lot Description
Attributed to GRANT WOOD (American 1891-1942) and CARL FLICK (American 1904-1976) A group of eight preparatory drawings in and around the Amana Colonies, circa 1930-1933
Charcoal and some colored chalk on brown paper
Unsigned and unframed
Provenance:
By direct descent through the family of Wood protégé and artist Carl Flick (1904-1976). See entry for previous lot.
The offered drawings, which descend directly through the family of artist Carl Flick, would seem to clearly illustrate the side by side teaching methodology employed by Wood in his instruction to Flick and as mentioned in the entry for the preceding lot. This premise is supported by renderings of identical scenes from identical vantage points and each clearly executed by different hands; one showing great competence, speed, and fluidity and the other being noticeably more reserved, stiff and less confident. This is particularly evident in side by side comparisons to the drawings titled Rural Landscape, West Amana Meat Shop, and Corner Mill.
Of the three drawings offered which have no duplicate counterpart (Amana Homestead, Curve in the Road, and Amana Schoolhouse) one (Amana Homestead) clearly shows the overwhelmingly deliberate execution which seems much more in keeping with the same confidence depicted on the two drawings in the preceding lot in which there seems to be less question regarding authorship.
It is wholly likely that some of the drawings offered in this lot may very well have been executed in their entirety by Wood, whereas others seem more likely to have been produced solely by Flick. To what degree Wood involved himself, as art instructors regularly do, in lending his hand to these drawings is unknown. However, what is known from the record is that Wood and Flick are recorded to have sketched together in the Amana Colonies. Indeed it is believed that it was in the course of one of these sketching excursions in a field and hillside north of high Amana, that Wood painted the sketch for his well-known work titled Young Corn, painted in 1931 (Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, on loan from the Cedar Rapids Community School District).
From the outset, Wood encouraged Flick to paint and also exhibit. Flick entered his first professional contest in 1931 and won fourth place at the Iowa State Fair (Iowa Art Salon) for Amana Interior. He would continue to paint and exhibit including a self-portrait which was shown at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair as well as a one-man show at the Homestead Hotel in the Amanas where Grant Wood served as guest lecturer. Flick's career as an artist appears short lived and by 1940 (around the time of his mentor Grant Wood’s death) it would seem that he produced few works, although some sources suggest he started painting again in 1954. Retrospective exhibits of Flick’s works were held at the Amana Arts Guild (Amana, IA, 1986) and the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (1997).
Each of the eight drawings offered in this lot are executed in charcoal on brown paper, three of which exhibit various colored chalk. The measurements listed below reflect the image size as designated by the folded borders which appear to have been wrapped around a sketching board at one time, and therefore the actual sheet size is larger. Only one drawing exhibits any inscriptions (West Amana Meat Shop) at both upper corners however the inscriptions seem unintelligible and are likely measurement references. With the exception of Amana Homestead and Amana School, paintings executed by Flick corresponding to these drawings are known to exist. In order illustrated the sizes are, Rural Landscape, 22 inches x 28 inches, Rural Landscape, 15 inches x 18 inches, Curve in the Road 22 inches x 28 inches, Amana Homestead, 22 inches x 28 inches, West Amana Meat Shop, 15 inches x 18 inches, West Amana Meat Shop, 22 inches x 28 inches, Corner of Mill, 26 inches x 30 inches, and Amana School, 13 inches x 15.5 inches (the last not illustrated in printed catalog).
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