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Lot 240
Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942), Tree Planting Group
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Lithograph, 1937, pencil signed and titled lower margin, edition of 250, published by Associated American Artists (with their label), full margins, unframed. Cole 1.

Image size 8 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.; Sheet size 11 7/8 x 16 1/8 in.

Private Collection, Massachusetts

Grant Wood only made eighteen lithographs in his lifetime, and this was the first. It is an Arbor Day scene, where children plant a sapling outside their schoolhouse to celebrate the planting of trees.

Overall beautiful condition. Two small spots in margin at lower left; slight sheet rippling lower margin; likely original hinging tape upper left and right corner.

$2,000 - 4,000