{"product_id":"grant_wood__spring_turning","title":"Spring Turning – Grant Wood, 1936","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSpring Turning by Grant Wood, 1936\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFramed Canvas Art\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeen from a high, hawk's-eye vantage point, \u003cstrong\u003eSpring Turning\u003c\/strong\u003e surveys the rolling Iowa countryside as if the land itself were breathing. \u003cstrong\u003eUndulating hills\u003c\/strong\u003e rise and fall in long, muscular curves, their contours rendered in a rich, saturated \u003cstrong\u003eemerald and lime green\u003c\/strong\u003e where new growth covers the slopes, while freshly plowed furrows cut bold \u003cstrong\u003ebands of deep reddish-brown earth\u003c\/strong\u003e across the composition in interlocking chevrons and near-perfect rectangles. A pale gray road threads through the middle distance, and a stand of \u003cstrong\u003erounded, toy-like trees\u003c\/strong\u003e anchors the lower right. The sky at the top is a thin band of cerulean blue broken by high, sculptural clouds. Wood's handling here is characteristically precise: outlines are crisp, surfaces are smooth to the point of feeling molded rather than painted, and every hill reads as a deliberate \u003cem\u003eformal unit\u003c\/em\u003e rather than an observed accident of nature. The panoramic, nearly cinematic horizontal format stretches the view into something close to an aerial diagram of the Midwestern farming cycle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWood painted \u003cstrong\u003eSpring Turning\u003c\/strong\u003e in 1936 at the height of his mature powers, two years after completing his landmark mural \u003cem\u003eBreaking the Prairie\u003c\/em\u003e studies and deep into the decade that defined \u003cem\u003eAmerican Regionalism\u003c\/em\u003e as a conscious cultural project. Like his contemporaries Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry, Wood believed that an authentically American art had to be rooted in the land and labor of the interior rather than in European avant-garde fashion. Yet Wood's Regionalism is distinguished from theirs by its extreme formal control: the rolling hills in this picture owe as much to his careful study of \u003cem\u003eFlemish Renaissance landscape conventions\u003c\/em\u003e as they do to actual Iowa topography. The painting belongs to a sustained series of overhead, panoramic farm views that Wood developed through the mid-1930s, including \u003cem\u003eYoung Corn\u003c\/em\u003e (1931) and \u003cem\u003eFall Plowing\u003c\/em\u003e (1931), in which the cultivation of land becomes a kind of monumental, rhythmically ordered event. \u003cem\u003eSpring Turning\u003c\/em\u003e was completed the year Wood joined the faculty at the University of Iowa, where he would spend the rest of his career, and it reflects his enduring conviction that the Midwestern agricultural landscape carried an intrinsic dignity equal to any European subject. The work entered the Reynolda House Museum of American Art collection and has been widely reproduced as an emblem of Depression-era optimism: the plowed earth not as hardship but as renewal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur archival \u003cem\u003egiclee\u003c\/em\u003e process on museum-grade cotton canvas is particularly well matched to this painting's demands. The subtle tonal transitions between the sun-warmed crests of the hills and the deeper, cooler hollows below them require a color gamut that poster-quality prints compress into flat approximations; our pigment inks hold those gradations across the full curve of each contour. The crisp, almost lacquer-smooth surface Wood applied, with no visible brushwork texture to soften the outlines, is faithfully preserved rather than muddied by the dot structure of lower-resolution reproduction. Our source image has been digitally restored from high-resolution museum scans, recovering the full chromatic separation between the reddish-brown plow lines and the vivid greens of the unturned slopes, as well as the delicate luminosity of the cloud-streaked sky at the top of the composition. The ornate composite frame, available in your choice of Gold, Silver, or Bronze finish, completes each size into a gallery-ready presentation. Small (17 x 8 inches, framed 25 x 16 inches, $195), Medium (23 x 10 inches, framed 31 x 18 inches, $295), Large (35 x 16 inches, framed 43 x 24 inches, $495), and Estate (47 x 21 inches, framed 55 x 29 inches, $995) sizes are available, each produced to order in our North Florida studio.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CanvasClassics","offers":[{"title":"Small \/ Gold \/ Classic","offer_id":67783512948971,"sku":"2320511","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Silver \/ Classic","offer_id":67783512981739,"sku":"2320512","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Dark Bronze \/ Classic","offer_id":67783513014507,"sku":"2320513","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Gold \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513047275,"sku":"232051R1","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Silver \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513080043,"sku":"232051R2","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Charcoal \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513112811,"sku":"232051R3","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Gloss Black \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513145579,"sku":"232051R4","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Gloss White \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513178347,"sku":"232051R5","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Gold \/ Classic","offer_id":67783513211115,"sku":"2320521","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Silver \/ Classic","offer_id":67783513243883,"sku":"2320522","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Dark Bronze \/ Classic","offer_id":67783513276651,"sku":"2320523","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Gold \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513309419,"sku":"232052R1","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Silver \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513342187,"sku":"232052R2","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Charcoal \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513374955,"sku":"232052R3","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Gloss Black \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513407723,"sku":"232052R4","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Gloss White \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513440491,"sku":"232052R5","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Gold \/ Classic","offer_id":67783513473259,"sku":"2320531","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Silver \/ Classic","offer_id":67783513506027,"sku":"2320532","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Dark Bronze \/ Classic","offer_id":67783513538795,"sku":"2320533","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Gold \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513571563,"sku":"232053R1","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Silver \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513604331,"sku":"232053R2","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Charcoal \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513637099,"sku":"232053R3","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Gloss Black \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513669867,"sku":"232053R4","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Gloss White \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513702635,"sku":"232053R5","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Gold \/ Classic","offer_id":67783513735403,"sku":"2320541","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Silver \/ Classic","offer_id":67783513768171,"sku":"2320542","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Dark Bronze \/ Classic","offer_id":67783513800939,"sku":"2320543","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Gold \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513833707,"sku":"232054R1","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Silver \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513866475,"sku":"232054R2","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Charcoal \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513899243,"sku":"232054R3","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Gloss Black \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513932011,"sku":"232054R4","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Gloss White \/ Regency","offer_id":67783513964779,"sku":"232054R5","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8606\/6923\/files\/grant_wood__spring_turning__large__gold.jpg?v=1791134819","url":"https:\/\/canvasclassics.shop\/products\/grant_wood__spring_turning","provider":"Canvas Classics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}